On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 14:35 -0800, L. A. Walsh wrote: > Jerry Casiano wrote: > > > > It's not defensive, it's just honest. > > > > ---- > ?? Honest != asking "why" questions, which tend to make people > defensive. Also, I've been told *plenty* of times that honesty is no > excuse for a lack of politenessor tact and that honesty, besides > being honest can be other things that are not so pleasant to > experience > or describe (that doesn't mean one should strive for the opposite, > either! :-) ). > > Too often when people (I see it in questions others ask more > often > than my own) ask questions, answers don't answer the question or > questions, but try to change what the person is asking or wanting > into > something else because their original questions didn't have easy > answers. > Yes, how dare anyone ask questions intended to understand your requirements in order to attempt to help by, if possible, suggesting a workaround when there are no easy answers. > Sorry if I was projecting that on you, and maybe I was projecting > some defensiveness since, I don't really have a "use case" -- I'm > not a font designer or publisher or someone that might need all those > fonts, other than always having been fascinated by them and have > been interested in unicode and ways to have my OS's use & display > the characters for 15-20 years. I got more interested in the look, > shape and creation of fonts after reading the book "Fonts & > Encodings" So now we get to the real reason you appear to be so easily offended. You have no real reason. You could have just said that. I was of course hoping for something more interesting but whatever. > > Maybe that answers your question(s) or not, but I might point > out, that > if you want your questions answered, it might be polite to answer > some of > the initially posed questions first. > > Cheers, > Linda > I already apologized for that, in my original response. I'm not going to do it again. If it bothered you, you shouldn't have even responded. I definitely regret having done so. Cheers indeed. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
