Zdenek Wagner wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the building concept. All fonts are built somehow.
I agree. But in 99.999% of cases, that building is conducted by the font designer, developer or distributor. The average user ("B. L. User", as Knuth would term him) not only does not know how to build fonts, he does not /want/ to know how to build fonts, since to him fonts are a tool, just as is (say) TeX or Adobe Reader. He expects them to be distributed in a ready-to-use format, and that expectation is perfectly reasonable : it is how fonts have traditionally been distributed, and how we may expect them to be distributed in the future.
Those that want to /build/ elements of their systems are a tiny tiny minority; everyone else just wants to use the system to achieve his or her goal.
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