[OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Mar 10 09:29:31 PST 2010


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:14:36AM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote:
> Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> skribis:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> > > Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site?
> > 
> > I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run LaTeX3
> > using final STIX fonts downloaded from the new OFLB website.
> 
> If I may interject as a font developer and font user.
> 
> There's a serious issue buried in there, which is that free fonts do
> not have font-functional free software on which to run, and it keeps
> on being like that. I am developing for TeXies (whose software is
> _mostly_ functional) and for the users of what some call slaveware. I
> have to write my own software to test and use my own Latin-script
> fonts.
> 
> OFLB really ought to be able to provide software bundles, I think,
> with font collections bundled with software that actually works, in
> which one can actually access the fonts in an Adobe Opticals
> collection and actually get the fonts asked for, in which OpenType
> tags can be selected, and so on. Starter kits. That's how ordinary
> people get drawn into the font world. That's part of how to make OFLB
> and the bundled-software projects very, very popular. But the fonts
> actually have to work in the software.

I think I forgot to add harfbuzz-ng to the list.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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