[Openfontlibrary] LGM?

[Jon Phillips]

Points below all well taken...at the end of the day, this packaging
decisions will be decided by he/she who does the work. Is anyone up for
that? Nicolas? Pierre?

Jon

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Sam 24 mai 2008 10:11, Pierre Marchand a écrit :
> > Vous (Nicolas Mailhot) avez écrit :
> >> > I don’t know for the "etc." but for README & INSTALL files I think
> >> > they are not needed. Since you can embed informations about the
> >> font
> >> > in the font file itself
> >>
> >> And you are wrong.
> >
> > C’est dit avec tant de délicatesse !
> 
> I reserve the right to be subtle as a brick when needed. And here I
> strongly feel brick mode is needed.
> 
> > I did not say that you should not take care of packaging. Just that we
> > have Information field in "name" table (& I deeply regret that most of
> > fonts does not provide info here) where README content would fit well.
> 
> And where no one would look it for. Fonts are not the first technical
> item where readme-like info could be put in some other "better" place,
> and in the end readme are *still* used everywhere because no one but
> the proponents of the various "better" places cares about learning
> them.
> 
> The costs of forcing people involved to learn a font-specific way are
> far higher than whatever you win over using plain txt readmes (which
> have proved to be good enough for a long time)
> 
> > Plus, installing
> > fonts is not a per font process, so I continue to think that
> > documenting it once on the web site would be enough.
> 
> Every time I've had to actually write documentation and support the
> people that used it my "enough" definition was redefined. Actual users
> do not want to think about tech, they just use it. Documentation must
> be written for mindless lemmings that will only do something if it's
> in their face (not hidden in magic metadata or in some remote web
> site) with no ambiguïty or useless explanations.
> 
> And that's not because users are dumb or whatever but users always
> have better things to do than think about your problems. You must not
> posit they have any brainshare to spare for "enough" setups.
> 
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