On 13-07-04 08:12 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote: > I can't say anything off hand so far because I'm not sure what you > want to do with it. you can mention more details here though, if there > are any way to organize them automatically, it may be, otherwise one > needs to make a list by the hand, which is able to do that even now. > and may be a bit hard to maintain and keep up-to-date. Reading PANOSE data has been suggested before, though I'm not sure many fonts correctly set those. b > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all. I've run into the common problem of too many fonts, and not >> enough stuff to help me filter through them. While I intend to work on this >> problem at a higher level (starting mid-2014, I hope), I saw that fontconfig >> might, with a few extra attributes, be able to help with this. >> >> While I was thinking about this, I also had a look at the Truetype >> spec, which also has more attributes than FontConfig does (I'm assuming that >> the fonts-conf manpage is up-to-date). Thus I thought it might be time to >> canvass the list and see whether there are other attributes which need to be >> added. >> >> I'm proposing that we add attributes in two groups. Those which >> help with font categorisation are: >> alphabetic: alphabetic or glyphic(?) (ie. dingbats, frames, the like) >> lettershape: what the general letter shape is (ie. Roman, Blackletter, >> Uncial, >> etc, etc) >> strokeends: various types of stroke endings on serif and sans-serif fonts; >> this will be a generalisation, since different strokes have >> different >> endings >> >> I'd also like to borrow some of the truetype ones for designer, >> copyright, etc, etc. >> >> I have a slightly more detailed proposal in an ODT document. >> >> Now for my questions: >> 1. Is this something that is appropriate for fontconfig? >> 2. Should I send my ODT document or something? >> >> That's enough from me this time around, I think. Let me know if >> there are any questions. >> >> :) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is, | >> | E-mail: wayland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | I am | >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- >> Version 3.12 >> GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- PE(+) Y+>++ PGP->+++ >> R(+) !tv b++ DI++++ D G+ e++>++++ h! y- >> -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fontconfig mailing list >> Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > > > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
