On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:10:43 +0100
Harriet Bazley wrote:
> The reason for swapping fonts (assuming that other people mean by that
> what I do, of course) is the same as the reason for organising files
> into directories, or any other form of subdivision: once you get
> beyond a relatively small n
On 6 Jul 2009 as I do recall,
Russell Hafter wrote:
> Like Rob, I do not understand why people would be swapping
> fonts all the time either. I have 25 font families on this
> machine, and feel pretty certain that I could bin at least
> 50% of them and never know the difference! I do no
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 12:47 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:03 +0100, Mike Hobbs wrote:
> > I mention this here because, as I think others have also pointed
> > out, the mechanism for font scanning probably needs reviewing.
> > It seems that seemingly minor changes to a mac
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 14:11 +0100, Simon Smith wrote:
> In message <50769a0f19ba...@e-allen.me.uk>
> Barry E Allen wrote:
>
> > In article <1246880870.32517.128.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell
> > wrote:
> > > There are 2 kinds of scan: full and partial.
> >
> >
> > > A partial scan wi
In message <50769a0f19ba...@e-allen.me.uk>
Barry E Allen wrote:
> In article <1246880870.32517.128.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell
> wrote:
> > There are 2 kinds of scan: full and partial.
>
>
> > A partial scan will occur if there are new fonts available. As the
> > name suggests, it
In article <1246880870.32517.128.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell
wrote:
> There are 2 kinds of scan: full and partial.
> A partial scan will occur if there are new fonts available. As the
> name suggests, it will only scan those new fonts, and nothing else.
Netsurf scans and finds the font 'Lampo
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:03 +0100, Mike Hobbs wrote:
> Thanks to John-Mark my problem was fixed (for a while) by
> making sure I had the latest FontManager. However, I unexpectedly
> had the problem return and the reason was that I had changed some
> fonts by synchronizing between my laptop and de
On 6 Jul 2009 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article ,
>Dr Peter Young wrote:
>> How did you make the screenshot, I wonder? I'd be interested to do that
>> with a couple of the Unicode fonts that I have.
> It's a screenshot of RUfl Chars, a sort of example program that comes with
> RUfl. I don
In article <4a51cdc4.6020...@druck.org.uk>, David J. Ruck
wrote:
> Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
> > Having been involved in earlier discussions about
> > unicode and NetSurf (at that time) failing to display
> > certain eastern European characters I am well aware of
> > this.
> > But while tha
Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
Having been involved in earlier discussions about unicode
and NetSurf (at that time) failing to display certain
eastern European characters I am well aware of this.
But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need
for font scanning *to me*. Sorry.
He
In article ,
Dr Peter Young wrote:
> How did you make the screenshot, I wonder? I'd be interested to do that
> with a couple of the Unicode fonts that I have.
It's a screenshot of RUfl Chars, a sort of example program that comes with
RUfl. I don't think there is currently a binary of it avail
On 6 Jul 2009 Michael Drake wrote:
> In article <507685eb29rh.li...@phone.coop>,
>Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
>> But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need
>> for font scanning *to me*. Sorry.
> Try reading the description of what RUfl does here:
> http://www.netsur
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:13:35 +0100
Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
> "RUfl manages to do all this efficiently by maintaining
> cached lookup tables containing various mappings."
>
> So, would I be correct in thinking that NetSurf, and only
> NetSurf, needs to do this font scanning, because it has
In article <50768756a5t...@netsurf-browser.org>, Michael
Drake wrote:
> In article <507685eb29rh.li...@phone.coop>, Russell
>Hafter - Lists wrote:
> > But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the
> > need for font scanning *to me*. Sorry.
> Try reading the description of what RUf
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:45:16 +0100
Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
> But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need
> for font scanning *to me*. Sorry.
If it doesn't scan them, it doesn't know which fonts have which glyphs
in, meaning it won't make good use of them.
> Also, I was th
In article <507685eb29rh.li...@phone.coop>,
Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
> But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need
> for font scanning *to me*. Sorry.
Try reading the description of what RUfl does here:
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/rufl/
Cheers,
--
Mich
In article
<20090706092932.0493f...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>,
Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:13:03 +0100 Russell Hafter - Lists
> wrote:
> > In article
> > <20090706003522.53717...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>,
> >Rob Kendrick wrote:
> > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:03
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:13:03 +0100
Russell Hafter - Lists wrote:
> In article
> <20090706003522.53717...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>,
>Rob Kendrick wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:03:02 +0100 Mike Hobbs
> > wrote:
>
> > > And all this trouble seems to be over fonts which
> > > NetSu
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:01:42 +0100
Dave Symes wrote:
> In article <20090706003522.53717...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>,
>Rob Kendrick wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:03:02 +0100
> > Mike Hobbs wrote:
>
> > > And all this trouble seems to be
> > > over fonts which NetSurf is never likel
In article
<20090706003522.53717...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>,
Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:03:02 +0100 Mike Hobbs
> wrote:
> > And all this trouble seems to be over fonts which
> > NetSurf is never likely to use.
> But NetSurf doesn't know this unless it scans them. Th
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