[Openfontlibrary] New Open Source Font, Help Migrating

[Dave Crossland]

2008/10/16 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>:
> On Thursday 16 October 2008, Brendan Ferguson wrote:
>> > As for recommendations of the structure of the font tarball itsefl
>> > there's a template here:
>> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fonts/open-font-design-resources/foo-o
>> >pen-font-sources/files
>>
>> Will the font designer know what this is? I really don't. Is this
>> some kind of a source file that is generally not released with the
>> finished font?

It is an example of the way you might structure a zip file containing
a free software font, with placeholder files for all the files the
Ubuntu fonts team can imagine being in a free font.

> That list of files looks a "bit" too much IMHO... It's much easier than
> that: you could have a README and a LICENSE file, and depending on
> whether he's actively working on it also NEWS or CHANGELOG.
>
> Most of the other files are just for building the fonts from source
> files. So I don't think they really apply to Miraculus, unless you get
> the real source files of course.

Yes, I think it would be good to make much more focused 'cuts' or
derived versions from the example currently there that map to common
user scenarios. Eg,

"I have recieved an OFL font as a single TTF and made changes with
FontForge. What files should I put in my zip"?

"I have made an original font from scratch with FontLab. What files
should I put in my zip"?

"I have made an original font from scratch with Inkscape and
FontForge. What files should I put in my zip"?

etc