On 1 June 2011 16:44, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 6/1/2011 1:27 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> and it's bound to always be somewhat out-of-date and >> incomplete. > > Well, of course. Everything on the web is out of date 15 minutes after > posting. That doesn't mean it has no value. > >> I don't want to have to deal with requests to update it >> for new versions of a font, to add more fonts (for example CJK fonts), >> or to cover other aspects such as support for different languages or >> maths symbols. In other words, I think the "Terminal Font Chronicler" >> is a sizable project in its own right. > > If there is any intent to ensure it is comprehensive and current, yes. I > don't have any such intent.
Me neither, but a wiki does create that expectation, even more so with an issue tracker next to it ... > It was reasonably comprehensive, and > current as of the date it was created. Agreed. >> I should add an entry about choosing a font to the Tips wiki page >> though, plugging DejaVu Sans and linking to your review, if you're >> planning on keeping it at its current location. > > Err...no. I've been hitting Peter's bandwidth at fruitbat.org pretty > hard lately (with the mingw cross compiler hosted there for the last > month, and now this page with 2.4MB of images), so I want to move or > delete the page. > > Many of the references I found around the net about terminal fonts were > in the form of blog posts. Blog posts are naturally dated, and nobody > expects a blogger to go back months later and update an old post (maybe > fix typos within a few days of posting, but beyond that, no). > > So, I reckon I'll put it up on a blog post somewhere. Maybe I'll start > a special purpose blog at blogspot or something. That sounds like the right approach to me. Thanks, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
