From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16224 invoked by alias); 1 Jun 2011 15:45:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 16215 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jun 2011 15:45:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:44:52 +0000 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5009220C40 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:44:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:44:51 -0400 Received: from [158.147.67.90] (158-147-67-90.harris.com [158.147.67.90]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 03DB14432D5; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:44:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DE65E71.503@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:45:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mintty font test References: <20110523115058.GJ3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDA7E64.3060202@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110523160437.GN3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDACA2C.6080201@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDC867B.6040000@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDD1FAF.9020804@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDDAFFF.1020300@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDE7789.2030901@etr-usa.com> <4DE50675.5040608@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 On 6/1/2011 1:27 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 31 May 2011 16:17, Charles Wilson wrote: >> I think this file, as well as the font-test stuff, would be most >> accessible if added to the mintty wiki somewhere. > I'm not keen on doing that. That's fine, it's your site and project. > The point remains that this is not > mintty-specific, I think that's arguable. The images depend on certain features (and option settings) of mintty -- like the auto-replacement of acsc characters, smoothing settings, the ability to change the terminal's lang settings independently of envvar values, etc. > and it's bound to always be somewhat out-of-date and > incomplete. Well, of course. Everything on the web is out of date 15 minutes after posting. That doesn't mean it has no value. > I don't want to have to deal with requests to update it > for new versions of a font, to add more fonts (for example CJK fonts), > or to cover other aspects such as support for different languages or > maths symbols. In other words, I think the "Terminal Font Chronicler" > is a sizable project in its own right. If there is any intent to ensure it is comprehensive and current, yes. I don't have any such intent. It was reasonably comprehensive, and current as of the date it was created. Good enough for me. > I should add an entry about choosing a font to the Tips wiki page > though, plugging DejaVu Sans and linking to your review, if you're > planning on keeping it at its current location. Err...no. I've been hitting Peter's bandwidth at fruitbat.org pretty hard lately (with the mingw cross compiler hosted there for the last month, and now this page with 2.4MB of images), so I want to move or delete the page. Many of the references I found around the net about terminal fonts were in the form of blog posts. Blog posts are naturally dated, and nobody expects a blogger to go back months later and update an old post (maybe fix typos within a few days of posting, but beyond that, no). So, I reckon I'll put it up on a blog post somewhere. Maybe I'll start a special purpose blog at blogspot or something. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple