On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:14:36AM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: > Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> skribis: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > > > Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site? > > > > I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run LaTeX3 > > using final STIX fonts downloaded from the new OFLB website. > > If I may interject as a font developer and font user. > > There's a serious issue buried in there, which is that free fonts do > not have font-functional free software on which to run, and it keeps > on being like that. I am developing for TeXies (whose software is > _mostly_ functional) and for the users of what some call slaveware. I > have to write my own software to test and use my own Latin-script > fonts. > > OFLB really ought to be able to provide software bundles, I think, > with font collections bundled with software that actually works, in > which one can actually access the fonts in an Adobe Opticals > collection and actually get the fonts asked for, in which OpenType > tags can be selected, and so on. Starter kits. That's how ordinary > people get drawn into the font world. That's part of how to make OFLB > and the bundled-software projects very, very popular. But the fonts > actually have to work in the software.
I think I forgot to add harfbuzz-ng to the list. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
