Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 11 mars 2010 06:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : In contrast, the archaic, +25 years old TeX is able to cope with modern technology, and have people who do actually care about typography. Last month I was able to convince ConTeXt developer to implement support for OpenType Optical margins

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:12:31AM +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Hi Khaled, Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 06:23:51 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:38:43PM +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:09:54AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Jeu 11 mars 2010 06:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : In contrast, the archaic, +25 years old TeX is able to cope with modern technology, and have people who do actually care about typography. Last month I was able to

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Barry Schwartz
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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
[...] I can't but agree with you on the chronic deficiency of good, typographically aware free software, apart from the 30 years old TeX, in fact the only way to utilize goodies of OpenType fonts is by using some variant of TeX (LuaTeX is my preferred). The free DTP application can't even do

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:24:58PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: [...] I can't but agree with you on the chronic deficiency of good, typographically aware free software, apart from the 30 years old TeX, in fact the only way to utilize goodies of OpenType fonts is by using some variant

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: But how OFLB is going to fix this, I don't think you are suggesting that we (OFLB community, whatever it means) rewrite

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:00:57PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: Well, things are changing now with the advent of LuaTeX, thanks to its backward compatibility, it is taking slowly over TeX world (see ConTeXt for example, which is being rewritten in

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:38:43PM +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org skribis: But how OFLB is going to fix this, I don't think you

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-10 Thread Christoph Schäfer
Hi Khaled, Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 06:23:51 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:38:43PM +0100, Christoph Schäfer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 22:56:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:51:51PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: Khaled Hosny

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
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. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-05 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Khaled Hosny wrote: 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. I admire your patience :-)

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:45:00PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: 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

[OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-04 Thread Daniel Johnson
I've noticed a number of non-font uploads (and some outright spam) posted on OFLB recently. I haven't done an exhaustive search, but the following uploads are not fonts. The first is spam, and the other three are just images. custom research paper Untitled-2 Wilson Vision (WARPED)