[Openfontlibrary] Some suggestions

[Simos Xenitellis]

Jon Phillips wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 02:20 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
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>>Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
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>>>On 12/9/05, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
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>>>>Also, there are different versions of fonts. How do you signify updates?
>>>>MyFont-3.ttf?
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>>>Possible, though I'd prefer usual *nix versioning
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>>>Btw, what do you think about SVN + .SFD (FontForge project file
>>>format)? Each version would have a unique number of its revision then.
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>>Personally I would be more comfortable with a standard versioning scheme:
>><1 if the font is not complete
>>1.0 for first complete version, and in the package it should describe 
>>what complete means (coverage, etc)
>>1.x for subsequent versions.
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>>If the font has a suitable license and gets accepted to Debian, for 
>>example, it will acquire a name of the form
>>ttf-myfont
>>The actually package could be ttf-myfont.1.0.zip (or 7z, or tar.gz)
>>If the package contains source as well, it could be ttf-myfont-1.0.src.zip
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>>It would be good to mention the coverage of a font per Unicode ranges 
>>(http://www.unicode.org/charts/).
>>I believe Alan Wood uses a tool to scan automatically the available 
>>Unicode ranges in the font.
>>http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
>>The categorisation there is quite good.
>>You can "automatically" create PNG files with font samples using tools 
>>like LASi++
>>http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/
>>so the end-user can have a good understand of what a font can or cannot 
>>do, as in
>>http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontguide/
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>>Of course, the above are just descriptions. The full credit will go to 
>>the people that will actually implement.
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>>Simos Xenitellis
>>http://simos.info/blog/
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>Yes, I completely agree with you. Please add your thoughts to the wiki.
>This is all good stuff and we should get it down for future development.
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I just added them in these pages and linked them from the home page.
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Font_Archive_Naming
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Font_Categorisation
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Current_PD/GPL_Fonts

Simos