On 2012-05-18 00:00, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 17-5-2012 16:11, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> 
> >So I judged that my preferred choice might not be as good as I
> >think. I got cold feet and am about to remove the slide where I
> >recommend the PS name (I can do that later anyways). Is there --
> >apart from personal opinions -- some valid reason to prefer one
> >name over the other *in general*?
> 
> For a project that has to run for a long time, I prefer filenames
> (file:). When fonts are stable names can be used too and the name
> resolved will check several names in the font. Spaces are ignored
> and names are lowercases. There's also some fallback name
> construction going on. Anyhow, the biggest problem is with fonts
> that have the same names (but different files).

I see. But even the filename can be treacherous: afair there is a
times.ttf among the MS core fonts but it’s different from the one
shipped with their office tools. The font name guessing, otoh,
seems pretty elaborate, though I have not had the opportunity to
look at it in detail.

>                                                 You can get some
> info when you run
> 
> mtxrun --script font --all --list pal
> 
> which shows all fonts with pal in the name(s)

... made me just appreciate how many great fonts come with the
minimals.

Thanks
Philipp


> 
> Hans
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