Jesse Ross wrote:
Well, you *did* describe the feature as being, effectively, a glorified
mknfonts -- which is useful, but not sufficient. I would suggest something
more interactive, so the human using the program gets a chance to affect
the result.
I would argue the reverse -- make the
I would argue the reverse -- make the initial font conversion a
virtually invisible process initially, something that doesn't require
any additional user interaction, as painless as just dragging a font
into the Font Manager window or clicking the + button on the bottom
of the window and
On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
Any font that has many uses is the same way, with many faces for
different
purposes and desired results. Typography is more than just
Regular, Bold,
Italic, Bold Italic and it deserves a good system to handle its
complexity.
The OpenStep
I'm not going to waist my breath arguing over what my app may, or may
not, be capable of doing. Since the feature in question hasn't been
implemented yet, you can hardly argue either way.
(:
I get smiles and giggles out of somebody who will compose a mail as
long as that to tell me something I
I also now see the reasoning behind nfonts. I didn't start this thread
just so I could shoot them down. I wanted to know what the original
reasons were ... and now I do.
Thanks,
Isaiah Beerbower
On 8/23/07, Jesse Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
I'm not going to waist my breath arguing over what my app may, or may
not, be capable of doing. Since the feature in question hasn't been
implemented yet, you can hardly argue either way.
(:
Well, you *did* describe the feature as being, effectively, a glorified
Well, you *did* describe the feature as being, effectively, a
glorified
mknfonts -- which is useful, but not sufficient. I would suggest
something
more interactive, so the human using the program gets a chance to
affect the
result.
I would argue the reverse -- make the initial font
On 8/21/07, Jeff Teunissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
Hello all,
Just a quick question about the art back end: For what reason dose it
not use fontconfig?
Since I'm the guy who suggested using NeXT Font packages (which the Art
graphics target supports), as well as
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
On 8/21/07, Jeff Teunissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Point 3 is partially a reaction to something that drove people using -xlib
INSANE, because GNUstep used to crash peoples' X servers all the damn time
while building the font cache (this was not *technically*
I don't want to step into this discussion, I see the benefits of both
concepts and in the good old GNustep way I would suggest to have them
both in parallel and let the users choose what they prefer.
Today I extracted the font enumerator out of the art font files. If
anybody wants to replace it,
On 8/22/07, Jeff Teunissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
On 8/21/07, Jeff Teunissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I can see how it wouldn't be desirable to have GNUstep use every font
found by fontconfig. Fontconfig and FreeType can provide us with all
the information
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
Hello all,
Just a quick question about the art back end: For what reason dose it
not use fontconfig?
Since I'm the guy who suggested using NeXT Font packages (which the Art
graphics target supports), as well as the idea of New Font (nfont) packages, I
suppose I should
Hi,
On 2007-08-17 18:59:11 +0200 Jesse Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. While these arguments against using fontconfig are valid,
the
mere annoyance of having to create a bundle for each font you want,
and not being able to keep all your fonts in one place, out weighs
them in my mind.
On 8/20/07, Riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On 2007-08-17 18:59:11 +0200 Jesse Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. While these arguments against using fontconfig are valid,
the
mere annoyance of having to create a bundle for each font you want,
and not being able to keep all
, 2007 3:12:19 AM
Subject: Re: Why dose art not use fontconfig?
Hi,
On 2007-08-17 18:59:11 +0200 Jesse Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. While these arguments against using fontconfig are valid,
the
mere annoyance of having to create a bundle for each font you want,
and not being able
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Subject: Re: Why dose art not use fontconfig?
Because art and xlib still have advantages and having them is an added
flexibility?
Although art is an excellent backend, the library it's based on, libart
Gregory John Casamento wrote:
Although art is an excellent backend, the library it's based on,
libart, is currently unmaintained, and cairo is actively maintained
and more Postscript like.Xlib renders poorly, but is fast on very
slow systems.
[...]
Allow me to rephrase... xlib renders
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Subject: Re: Why dose art not use fontconfig?
Because art and xlib still have advantages and having them is an added
flexibility?
Although art is an excellent backend, the library it's based on, libart
On 8/17/07, Jesse Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The real reason for that choice could only be given by Alexander
Malmberg, who implemented the art backend.
I may be able to offer you a few hints, but none of it may be the
true
reason.
Using the nfont concept offers some benefits over
On 8/16/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
Hello all,
Just a quick question about the art back end: For what reason dose it
not use fontconfig?
Thanks,
Isaiah Beerbower
The real reason for that choice could only be given by Alexander
Malmberg, who
The real reason for that choice could only be given by Alexander
Malmberg, who implemented the art backend.
I may be able to offer you a few hints, but none of it may be the
true
reason.
Using the nfont concept offers some benefits over fontconfig. It
allows
us to assign a Postscript name
Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
Hello all,
Just a quick question about the art back end: For what reason dose it
not use fontconfig?
Thanks,
Isaiah Beerbower
The real reason for that choice could only be given by Alexander
Malmberg, who implemented the art backend.
I may be able to offer you a
And when I said dose it is only natural that I meant does (=
On 8/15/07, Isaiah Beerbower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
Just a quick question about the art back end: For what reason dose it
not use fontconfig?
Thanks,
Isaiah Beerbower
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