Re: chancery font

[Paul Tremblay <phthenry@iglou.com>]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:15:19AM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> Not only that, Adam, but the configuration issues involve so much minutae that 
> it is very easy to make simple mistakes that cause, e.g, typescripts to fail. 
> As Ciro suggested, what what would be useful is a gui that completely 
> automates the process and that asks all relevant questions and generates 
> everything ConTeXt needs to install and run Latin fonts, including expert 
> fonts like Minion.**** (Maybe oneday the gui can be extended for Chinese, 
> Arabic, etc.)

I myself know that when it comes time for me to work with fonts, I will
have trouble. However, I am not for a gui. A gui is hard to write and
maintain, and given all the different platforms out there, including
older linux distributions with old libraries, it most likey wouldn't run
on all of them. 

I think you can achieve the same thing with a well-written shell script,
which can be interactive and can test all sorts of variables. Wouldn't a
shell script do the job you want? I mean, imagine the best, most fancy
gui you can, one that does everything you want with fonts. Now just
imagine the same program in an ugly shell that would do the same thing,
with the same interaction, and wouldn't that do the trick? 

Paul

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