On 2012-05-18 00:00, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 17-5-2012 16:11, Philipp Gesang wrote: > > >So I judged that my preferred choice might not be as good as I > >think. I got cold feet and am about to remove the slide where I > >recommend the PS name (I can do that later anyways). Is there -- > >apart from personal opinions -- some valid reason to prefer one > >name over the other *in general*? > > For a project that has to run for a long time, I prefer filenames > (file:). When fonts are stable names can be used too and the name > resolved will check several names in the font. Spaces are ignored > and names are lowercases. There's also some fallback name > construction going on. Anyhow, the biggest problem is with fonts > that have the same names (but different files).
I see. But even the filename can be treacherous: afair there is a times.ttf among the MS core fonts but it’s different from the one shipped with their office tools. The font name guessing, otoh, seems pretty elaborate, though I have not had the opportunity to look at it in detail. > You can get some > info when you run > > mtxrun --script font --all --list pal > > which shows all fonts with pal in the name(s) ... made me just appreciate how many great fonts come with the minimals. Thanks Philipp > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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