Re: What's the difference between AHEM____.TTF and ahem3.ttf ?

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
>>
>
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