Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Kay C Lan wrote: " Fortunately one of the parents is extremely supportive and is happy to pony up for an LC Indy License. Is it kosher that this app, built by multiple people using Community, is now licensed by a single Indy holder? Can further game refinement be done by the gang

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-20 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 20/07/2016 06:09, Kay C Lan wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: note that I am not an attorney so nothing I write can be construed as legal advice Neither am I, which is why I think it's important that Peter B (or a Company rep) is

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-19 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > note that I am not an attorney so nothing I write can be > construed as legal advice > Neither am I, which is why I think it's important that Peter B (or a Company rep) is involved and ultimately provides the

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: > I've come late to this discussion but this would seem to be an > excellent topic for a blog post and even the basis for an official > 'Guide' that can be accessed via the Guide tab of the LC8 Dictionary. > And as you both (Peter and Richard) represent either side of the fence

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-19 Thread Kay C Lan
Roger Guay wrote: > >> Richard, >> >> Please help me out here. I just want to share my work ... > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Gosh, Roger, there's only a hundred or so open source licenses to choose > from - are you lazy? :) > > The options

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Roger Guay
On Jul 14, 2016, at 10:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > A popular choice of permissive license that's both GPL-compatible and works > equally well for proprietary use is the MIT License, which FWIW Scott Raney > had chosen for the MC IDE. > > A discussion of it

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > Richard, > > Please help me out here. I just want to share my work without > restrictions. I don’t have the patience to review, and I certainly > will not be able to commit to memory these license nuances. Gosh, Roger, there's only a hundred or so open source licenses to

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Also, what issues have you found with font selection/text editing in >> v8 that are not present in earlier versions? > > An unwieldy font list for one. It would be great if it were typing > reactive or if it had a letter index like I have in FontLab.

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Roger Guay
Roger Eller Wrote: > On Jul 14, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > > This is Awesome! In OS X it works as expected, but in Windows 7 the Index > fields, and point size field are shorter than the content. Clicking a > letter takes you "near" the letter in the

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Roger Guay
Richard Gasken wrote: > > Which one? GPLv3, v2, BSD, MIT, or something else? > > Also, what issues have you found with font selection/text editing in v8 that > are not present in earlier versions? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Roger Guay
Richard Gaskin wrote: > On Jul 14, 2016, at 7:16 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > Also, what issues have you found with font selection/text editing in v8 that > are not present in earlier versions? > An unwieldy font list for one. It would be great if it were

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Roger Eller
This is Awesome! In OS X it works as expected, but in Windows 7 the Index fields, and point size field are shorter than the content. Clicking a letter takes you "near" the letter in the font list, but is off a few letters. Thanks for sharing this. ~Roger On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:37 AM,

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: >> On Jul 14, 2016, at 1:14 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> >> On 14/07/2016 05:01, Roger Guay wrote: >>> With recent urgings from Klaus in responding to “Font Picker” >>> questions, I decided it was time to build a new Plugin to address >>> the difficulty of text editing and font

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Roger Guay
Open Source. Roger > On Jul 14, 2016, at 1:14 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > > > On 14/07/2016 05:01, Roger Guay wrote: >> With recent urgings from Klaus in responding to “Font Picker” >> questions, I decided it was time to build a new Plugin to address the >>

Re: [ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-14 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 14/07/2016 05:01, Roger Guay wrote: With recent urgings from Klaus in responding to “Font Picker” questions, I decided it was time to build a new Plugin to address the difficulty of text editing and font selection in LiveCode (Especially LC 8). I’m quite happy with the result and you may

[ANN] Sharing FontLab Plugin

2016-07-13 Thread Roger Guay
With recent urgings from Klaus in responding to “Font Picker” questions, I decided it was time to build a new Plugin to address the difficulty of text editing and font selection in LiveCode (Especially LC 8). I’m quite happy with the result and you may find some goodness in it as well. You can