Re: test suite required fonts

Will this be fixed in the next release?

- John

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
To: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:12:40 AM
Subject: Re: test suite required fonts

The latest release (7/27) tweaked the ambiguous wording but still does not refer to the fonts required for running through the Microsoft tests, the Ahem variations listed below.

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20100727/

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
To: public-css-testsuite@w3.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:01:04 PM
Subject: test suite required fonts

> Note that many of the tests require the Ahem font to be installed.
> These tests are marked with the 'ahem' flag in their metadata.
> Without the Ahem font installed, these tests are of no value.
> 
> Some of the font-related tests also require special fonts, and are
> otherwise of no value. These tests are marked with the 'font' flag
> in their metadata. 

The "are otherwise of no value" is ambiguous.  I would suggest instead:

  "Some of the font-related tests require fonts to be
   installed before running the tests.  These tests are
   marked with the 'font' flag in their metadata."
  
There's no mention or link to the additional fonts required for some of Microsoft's tests, the ones in this directory:

  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_Ahem!.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_MissingItalicOblique.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_MissingNormal.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_SmallCaps.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_WhiteSpace.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_cursive.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_default.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_fantasy.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_inherit.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_initial.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_monospace.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_sans-serif.TTF
  contributors/microsoft/submitted/support/AHEM_serif.TTF
  
Rather than have several different links that point to a wiki page that in turn points to several different sets of fonts, why not simply have a direct link to a single zipfile with all required fonts.

Received on Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:57:36 UTC