Suffix for "Old Standard" ?
Hi,
As I'm attempting to create a package of the (great) Old Standard font,
I have mail the founder and have got the answer (forwarded). The answer
is quite harsh (if that I spare you the "anti-source building"
paragraph.
So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for
finding a good suffix (maybe "iced" as Nicolas propose), anyone of you
have an lightning idea ?
Pablo
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:08:35 +0400
De: Alexey Kryukov <anagnost(a)yandex.ru>
À: Martin-Gomez Pablo <pablo.martin-gomez(a)laposte.net>
Sujet: Re: Packaging "Old Standard" font in Fedora
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, you wrote:
about building Old Standard from source. Do you still wish us to
change the name of the font if we built it (without any
modifications) from sources ? It would be quite daft to have Old
Standard packaged in Fedora without it original name.
Unfortunately, yes. I don't insist the name should be changed entirely,
adding a suffix (say, "Old Standard FC") would be sufficient and even
preferrable.
The reason is that I could not update the source package on my site for
more than a year (instead I was spending my efforts improving FontForge
itself :), and the current FF version is not guaranteed to produce
correct results with such old source files. This can lead to problems
I have no intention to be responsible of.
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Regards,
Alexej Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru>
Moscow State University
Historical Faculty