[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 f

[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 Scarlatt

[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 whic

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

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 ? > > That's OK, but don't waste effort on compression. > Standards say you use the p

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 b

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 ot

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 .w