On 06/03/2009 02:02 PM, Ben Weiner wrote:
Hi,
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Ok, listening. It still slightly worries me that all the new code
being written is duplicating lots of code that is already out there...
OK, well, please give us some more hints about which functionality we
shouldn't
On 06/03/2009 03:28 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
Fontaine also overlaps with fontconfig and
pango in huge parts.
I'm not as convinced that fontaine overlaps so extensively with
fontconfig. The way orthographies are grouped in fontaine is quite
different than in fontconfig.
The treatment of Japanese
On 06/01/2009 02:59 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/6/1 Behdad Esfahbodbeh...@behdad.org:
On 05/31/2009 03:55 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi,
You can download a chat between Ed Trager, Ben Weiner and I about the
development of the site we had tonight - its 31Mb at
Hi,
I hope I don't get flamed for this. I'm not a typophile, but an i18n'er.
I've been working all my adult life making sure GNOME is accessible to people
in any language they wish to use it with. I fully understand the importance
of having good, high quality, legible, fonts. I also
On 05/29/2009 10:57 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
Of course, there are also i18n reasons to supply a font -- if you're
writing in a script that has poor support on major platforms, you no
longer have to decide between text-in-images or telling people to
install a font.
This made me smile. It was
On 05/29/2009 11:10 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website designers
choose what font *I* read their text with?
Think of paper books :)
Their limitation that I can't resize
On 05/29/2009 12:16 PM, Christopher Fynn wrote:
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
...
But I think for many people @font-face will be a great enabler: they
will have a much nicer solution for publishing content on the web (or
platforms using web-technologies) via open standards and have to worry
about
Ed Trager wrote:
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2009 TEXT LAYOUT AND TYPOGRAPHY WORKSHOP / MEETING SURVEY
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(1) VENUE. I PREFER THE FOLLOWING VENUE:
[ ] LGM in Montreál 6-9 May 2009 (
