2009/5/13 Schrijver :
>
> Here is what I predict will happen:
lol :-)
Thanks Dave,
Sounds doable,
Here is what I predict will happen:
Because of my male pride I will fiddle around with unix system
administration technology on my own for quite bit
even though I don’t know or understand anything of it,
But I will feel independent and empowered!
And than at the p
2009/5/13 Schrijver :
>
> But could I maybe just compile on a local virtual machine and drop the
> fontforge folder in my servers usr/local/ folder?
Yes if they share the same architecture and FF is statically linked
then this should be fine.
FontForge is famous for having optional, and even at that, very few,
dependencies.
That is a pretty nifty thing to be famous for!
Great. I take back hesitance.
But then why does nobody install it on their webserver?
I would like to try and do that,
Though I have shared hosting so I can’t run
2009/5/11 Emma Jane Hogbin :
>
> Do you need an entire alphabet, or can an apprentice create a font from
> a sketch of the letters, a, q, g t and e?
At the Reading school we work on the lowercase word "adhesion" for
months until expanding it out to a full lowercase, then add caps, then
add diacrit
2009/5/11 Schrijver :
>>>
>>> I had thought of scripting Fontforge but it seemed a bit heavyweight for
>>> hosted solutions,
>>
>> Um, really? Where is the weight?
>
> It is a compiled C binary, no, with dependencies and everything?
FontForge is famous for having optional, and even at that, very f
On Monday 11 May 2009 5:58:57 pm Schrijver wrote:
> I was thinking, what role does that give the typeface, or the type
> designer, then…
> But I think you could see it as the type designer (whether he or she
> is one person, or a project) is the one who makes prototypes
> in the cognitive sense of
Dave & Ben:
I think that's the long term plan, yes.
Great, it is comforting to be in conceptual synch :-)
Emma:
I was completely delighted that this topic came up.
Thanks! &That delighted me, recursive delight
Aaron:
I pretty much just had the same idea. If we could create the font
on
2009/5/9 Emma Jane Hogbin :
>
> This is very cool. I know that Bazaar and Launchpad are both Python-friendly,
> so I've posted this as a feature request to Bazaar. Mostly it's a reminder to
> myself, but someone else might pick it up as well.
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/373446
Tha
On Thursday 07 May 2009 4:21:00 pm Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/5/7 Schrijver :
> > One exciting development I didn’t mention yet on the list, is that GitHub
> > now supports visualising UFO’s:
>
> Whats the best free replacement for github? Trac perhaps?
Launchpad will be going open source later
Hi
Dave Crossland wrote:
[Aaron Spaulding:]
It might be a major hassle to implement, but I could imagine something like
this for the OFLB, where each font becomes a little repository you can
submit patches to, or start their your fork from. Conceptually, this seems
to already be sort of the mod
2009/5/8 :
>
>>> However there still is a gap within this workflow—how do you generate
>>> distributable font files from the UFO?
>>> It would be great if you could do that programmaticaly,
>>
>> FontForge can do it very easily with python scripting:
>
> Could you do this on a webserver? Say, havi
Schrijver wrote:
Hello,
&props to anyone at the Libre Graphics Meeting!
I am not in Montréal, wish you all a lot of fun there, but thought I
could join in the spirit of collaboration :-)
So I put together a page on possible workflows for collaborative
development of typefaces!
at the wiki:
Hi Dave,
On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:21:00 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/5/7 Schrijver :
>>
>> One exciting development I didn’t mention yet on the list, is that
>> GitHub
>> now supports visualising UFO’s:
>
> Whats the best free replacement for github? Trac perhaps?
>
Trac by default uses SVN
2009/5/7 Schrijver :
>
> One exciting development I didn’t mention yet on the list, is that GitHub
> now supports visualising UFO’s:
Whats the best free replacement for github? Trac perhaps?
> However there still is a gap within this workflow—how do you generate
> distributable font files from th
Hello,
&props to anyone at the Libre Graphics Meeting!
I am not in Montréal, wish you all a lot of fun there, but thought I
could join in the spirit of collaboration :-)
So I put together a page on possible workflows for collaborative
development of typefaces!
at the wiki: http://openfontl
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