Points below all well taken...at the end of the day, this packaging decisions will be decided by he/she who does the work. Is anyone up for that? Nicolas? Pierre?
Jon On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Sam 24 mai 2008 10:11, Pierre Marchand a écrit : > > Vous (Nicolas Mailhot) avez écrit : > >> > I don’t know for the "etc." but for README & INSTALL files I think > >> > they are not needed. Since you can embed informations about the > >> font > >> > in the font file itself > >> > >> And you are wrong. > > > > C’est dit avec tant de délicatesse ! > > I reserve the right to be subtle as a brick when needed. And here I > strongly feel brick mode is needed. > > > I did not say that you should not take care of packaging. Just that we > > have Information field in "name" table (& I deeply regret that most of > > fonts does not provide info here) where README content would fit well. > > And where no one would look it for. Fonts are not the first technical > item where readme-like info could be put in some other "better" place, > and in the end readme are *still* used everywhere because no one but > the proponents of the various "better" places cares about learning > them. > > The costs of forcing people involved to learn a font-specific way are > far higher than whatever you win over using plain txt readmes (which > have proved to be good enough for a long time) > > > Plus, installing > > fonts is not a per font process, so I continue to think that > > documenting it once on the web site would be enough. > > Every time I've had to actually write documentation and support the > people that used it my "enough" definition was redefined. Actual users > do not want to think about tech, they just use it. Documentation must > be written for mindless lemmings that will only do something if it's > in their face (not hidden in magic metadata or in some remote web > site) with no ambiguïty or useless explanations. > > And that's not because users are dumb or whatever but users always > have better things to do than think about your problems. You must not > posit they have any brainshare to spare for "enough" setups. > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
