- From: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:15:34 -0400
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > This is not directly related but allow me to use the opportunity > to ask the same dumb question I asked at Typecon: how do authors > find out about the features available in a font and the correct > integer values to use ? I think this will be a foundry education issue. Right now most foundries provide PDFs detailing the features in the fonts. For example, Commercial Type has documents like this: http://commercialtype.com/typeface_images/platform/platform/Platform-OT.pdf Some of these documents even contain information explaining how to get to the features in applications like the Adobe CS, Quark Xpress, etc. The integers are a new level of specificity that foundries will have to document. That shouldn't be terribly difficult to do. > Next question for the Web Fonts WG is: would an enumeration of > the features available in a font be a valuable use of the WOFF > metadata block ? I suspect it would make the latter far more > valuable to authors and thus add incentives for browser/tool > vendors to display its content. That's an interesting idea. I think it could be useful. Tal
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