[Openfontlibrary] Some suggestions

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:11 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 02:20 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On 12/9/05, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Also, there are different versions of fonts. How do you signify updates?
> >>>>MyFont-3.ttf?
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Possible, though I'd prefer usual *nix versioning
> >>>
> >>>Btw, what do you think about SVN + .SFD (FontForge project file
> >>>format)? Each version would have a unique number of its revision then.
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>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
> >>
> >>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/
> >>
> >>Of course, the above are just descriptions. The full credit will go to 
> >>the people that will actually implement.
> >>
> >>Simos Xenitellis
> >>http://simos.info/blog/
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >  
> >
> 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

So great to have you contributing!

Jon

> 
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