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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