[OpenFontLibrary] openfontlibrary.org - change request

[Chris Lilley]

On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 11:45:32 AM, Ben wrote:

BG> Hi there folks,
BG> I notice that the font page (and notably the sample text) is not
BG> aware of the characters supported by the font in question.
BG> Obviously, for those fonts which deal with code pages that are
BG> far away from Latin, that's not very useful; most of the work that I do is far away from Latin.

BG> Could the authors not allow for a font maintainer to provide
BG> several example strings that demonstrate the font in question?

I notice that you provided suitable text:

> Here is an example piece of text to test above.

┌┮┭┰┅┭───┮┄┰┮┭┐
┝┽┼╂┉├───┤┋╂┼┾┥
└┶┵┸┅┵───┶┄┸┶┵┘

but there is no way to render this wit the supplied font.


BG> This comes particularly into focus when looking at
BG> http://openfontlibrary.org/files/Ben_Griffin/286
BG> The only way in which to =see= what the font does is to scroll
BG> all the way to the bottom of the page and see a small
BG> represenatation of  the submitted example jpg! 

Also, the green download button produces an error page 'Can't find content template' and no download.

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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
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