- From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:30:41 -0400
- To: Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Geoffrey Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com>, Public CSS Test suite mailing list <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>, Steve Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>
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For the underscores in the filename, see http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5088.FontNames.pdf p. 15 -Christian On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org> wrote: > 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 > >
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