[OpenFontLibrary] openfontlibrary.org - change request

[Dave Crossland]

Hi Ben!

Thanks for your upload, and your recent bug reports about managing files :-)

On 6 October 2010 11:45, Ben Griffin <ben at redsnapper.net> wrote:
>
> I notice that the font page (and notably the sample text) is not aware of the characters supported by the font in question.
> Obviously, for those fonts which deal with code pages that are far away from Latin, that's not very useful; most of the work that I do is far away from Latin.
> Could the authors not allow for a font maintainer to provide several example strings that demonstrate the font in question?

The current codebase of the site is basically a dead end; I and Bassel
from http://www.aikiframework.org/ and making a new version of the
site with http://www.aikiframework.org that we hope will be ready very
soon. It should be easy to make these kinds of changes with the new
site :-)

> On another note, but from the same place, the Description text and the FontLog text appear to be fixed with
> the site's design, which is fair enough. However rather than have 'bold'/'italic' etc. as text editorial options, why
> not at least add a 'thefontinquestion' modifier, so that the Description text may show off examples, features
> etc. of the font that is being mentioned.

Yes, the template language of Aiki will make this kind of this
possible, I think.

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

Yeah.... changing the order is a bit tricky though, because the
'files' area is hardcoded to be before the images area... If you are a
PHP programmer, you can see the source to that page here:

http://trac.openfontlibrary.org/browser/openfontlibrary_files/skins/oflb-skin/oflb_upload_page_shared.tpl

-- 
Cheers
Dave