On 21 September 2015 at 07:12, peter sikking <pe...@mmiworks.net> wrote:
> > > - removing "make their texts communicate better and to” > > that snippet is rather important to me, it is really a > different kettle of fish than “refine their texts’ aesthetic > and typographical qualities.” > > it moves on from the, to put it bluntly, decorative, which > any cold-hearted boor will give exactly zero seconds consideration > (‘nice to have’). what we are trying to make clear is that there are > cases where otf make a difference between communicating successfully > or not (a financial report where the numbers to not line up in columns > is unreadable). > > now that I have written that, I know I have to put it > better in the vision. > Okay cool > btw: thinking through this, I do believe that the way the > character entry – character encoding – standard font tables + > mandatory (automatic) otf has come about, there are no cases > where user-controllable otf _must_ be used to get just the > correct glyph to display. > > if I am wrong about this, I would really appreciate a chat with > an expert in this field. I think this depends on what you mean by "correct" glyphs; for example, tabular numbers may not be the default, instead proportional numbers, and in that case the unicode for the numbers will not result in a table that lines up in cols. I think 'unreadable' is an overstatement, but if true then I suppose it follows that this is case where user control must be exercised to get to the 'correct' result. (Of course, a program could have some 'smart' features to activate optional OpenType features when available, such as detecting a col of numbers, the availability of a tnum feature in the font, and thus activating it.) > > - distinguishing 2 classes of end-users, general public (eg slide deck > editors like LibreOffice) and typographers (eg Scribus users) > > of course that was in my notes, but during the writing of the > vision I noticed that typographers are (duh) part of ‘everyone’ > and I could not come up with any value that has to be delivered > to them that is _different_ than the ones named for everyone. > (typographer _may_ need a different UI design than ‘general public’, > but I can tell you that… when I get there). > > I am open to hearing about extra/special value for typographers > (would be cool to have that clear). I agree its possible a single solution can work so worth waiting to see how the UI turns out -- Cheers Dave
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