[OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

2010-06-14 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi, I'm finally looking inside http://oflb.open-fonts.org/foo-open-font-sources-2.0.tar.gz that Nicolas mentioned during his talk at LGM. Is there some kind of description of the recommended workflow? Like doing everything in separate UFO files and then combining them in FF, or working on a

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

2010-06-14 Thread Schrijver
Hi Alexandre, IIRC Nicolas doesn’t recommend a specific workflow, rather, this template seeks to accommodate the various workflows people might have. Generally, you won’t want to work on the UFO files directly, but you interface through an editor which can read and write UFO, like fontforge

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

2010-06-14 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 6/15/10, Schrijver wrote: Generally, you won’t want to work on the UFO files directly, but you interface through an editor which can read and write UFO, like fontforge or the proprietary alternative. I sort of suspected that :-P I guess internally fontforge then creates a fontforge

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] workflow hints

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Baker
On Monday, June 14, 2010, Schrijver You could actually come up with collaboration strategies around Fontforge’s own format too; I think they made a plain-text version of it for this purpose. (And I think this is in Nicolas’ templates as well). The main reason why you would want to use UFO