[sugar] Which Non-Latin Scripts Do Free Software Fonts Not Cover?

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi All, I've just started the Masters degree in Typeface Design at the University of Reading (for which Gentium was a submitted project) and will be committing the next year to designing an original typeface design and producing a professionally high quality OpenType font, that will of course be

[sugar] Sugar API pydoc string (Re: OLPC News 2007-10-20)

2007-10-21 Thread Pascal Scheffers
Hi, On 20-okt-2007, at 20:49, Walter Bender wrote: 26. How-tos/documentation: A few groups have independently developed their own how-tos about using Sugar and the XOs. Christoph Derndofer and Eduardo Silva each took a stab at how-tos for using activities and Todd Kelsey and Val Scarlatta

[sugar] Journal integration design for Measure Activity

2007-10-21 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Eben/Tomeu/Marco , This is with reference to incorporation of a feature (a post TR3 feature , targeted at FRS) which requires some re-thinking into the design of Journal Integration of Measure Activity and is also a good (and important) opportunity to look into the complete design of integration

Re: [sugar] Journal integration design for Measure Activity

2007-10-21 Thread Eben Eliason
1) Since many logs are going to be associated with one logging session, what is the best way to pack these log files and associate with the journal? Should one make a .zip file of all the log files ? I think a zip file is a great choice, with the contents being a flat list of text files which

Re: [sugar] Journal integration design for Measure Activity

2007-10-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
Arjun Sarwal writes: 1) Since many logs are going to be associated with one logging session, what is the best way to pack these log files and associate with the journal? Should one make a .zip file of all the log files ? That's OK, but don't waste effort on compression. Standards say you use

Re: [sugar] Journal integration design for Measure Activity

2007-10-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
That's OK, but don't waste effort on compression. Standards say you use the pax format, or at least something like tar or cpio. Interesting point. Perhaps, with our filesystem, we should always prefer something other than zip for bundles? Tar would be a good pick. It's also because

Re: [sugar] Journal integration design for Measure Activity

2007-10-21 Thread Eben Eliason
On 10/21/07, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's OK, but don't waste effort on compression. Standards say you use the pax format, or at least something like tar or cpio. Interesting point. Perhaps, with our filesystem, we should always prefer something other than zip for

Re: [sugar] Journal integration design for Measure Activity

2007-10-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 10/22/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/21/07, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest format for audio data is an audio file. Basic *.wav data is really simple. It's a 44-byte header followed by the raw data. Obviously I know little about the .wav format,