- From: Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:21:05 -0400
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Geoffrey Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com>, Public CSS Test suite mailing list <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>, Steve Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>
Le 2016-07-26 16:02, fantasai a écrit : > On 03/24/2016 01:26 PM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Gérard Talbot >> <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org> wrote: >>> http://test.csswg.org/source/fonts/ahem/ >>> AHEM____.TTF 2014-05-30 00:04 12K >>> >>> http://test.csswg.org/source/fonts/ >>> ahem3.ttf 2014-05-30 00:04 14K >>> >>> What is the adequate usage for ahem3.ttf ? >>> >>> In what way is ahem3.ttf different (or better) from (than) >>> AHEM____.TTF ? >> >> I asked this question last November in >> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2015Nov/0007.html>, >> which covered a bit of background about what the differences are, and >> the difference in licenses. I seem to remember trying to resolve this >> back in 2010, but I have no idea how. Sadly, nobody seems to know >> anymore… > > Okay, I called up Arron Eicholz. Apparently this is a replacement > of the old Ahem font, that includes some glyphs above the ASCII > range Which glyphs above the ASCII range ? I would try to use such glyphs in my tests and testing... if I knew which codepoint render which shape ... > to allow testing it. It was created by Sergei at Microsoft. > > We should probably move it into the ahem/ directory and replace > the AHEM____.TTF file. There are two ways of doing that: > > a) Replace AHEM____.TTF > b) Delete AHEM____.TTF and move ahem3.ttf to fonts/ahem.ttf a) or b) are okay with me; either one is okay with me... as long as the textual description [1] is updated to include the new codepoints corresponding to the shapes. One shape seems to be an hollow black square above the alphabetic baseline. > I'm not sure what's up with the AHEM____.TTF naming, if it indicates > some kind of special compatibility with ancient Windows systems or > what... I do not know either why the 4 underscore characters in the font name ... [1] https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/Fonts/Ahem/ Gérard > Fonts are scary. Tell me what to do. >_<;; > > ~fantasai -- Test Format Guidelines http://testthewebforward.org/docs/test-format-guidelines.html Test Style Guidelines http://testthewebforward.org/docs/test-style-guidelines.html Test Templates http://testthewebforward.org/docs/test-templates.html CSS Naming Guidelines http://testthewebforward.org/docs/css-naming.html Test Review Checklist http://testthewebforward.org/docs/review-checklist.html CSS Metadata http://testthewebforward.org/docs/css-metadata.html
Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2016 20:21:39 UTC