From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26665 invoked by alias); 1 Jun 2011 05:27:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 26654 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jun 2011 05:27:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,TW_SV,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-qw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-qw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.216.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:27:37 +0000 Received: by qwf6 with SMTP id 6so3140867qwf.2 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:27:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.25.212 with SMTP id a20mr5000130qcc.148.1306906056056; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.43.18 with HTTP; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:27:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DE50675.5040608@cwilson.fastmail.fm> 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> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty font test From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00002.txt.bz2 On 31 May 2011 16:17, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 5/27/2011 1:29 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 27 May 2011 06:26, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: >>>> It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with >>>> mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the test on their system >>>> with other fonts. >>> >>> It's not mintty-specific and it's not documentation, so no. >>> >>> Find it attached though. >> >> Forgot to say: the file was created by Thomas Wolff. > > I think this file, as well as the font-test stuff, would be most > accessible if added to the mintty wiki somewhere. > > http://code.google.com/p/mintty/w/list > > Obviously, any direct download links in the wiki text (such as src="" /> elements like the screenshots here: > http://code.google.com/p/mintty/ > > would require that those files be added to svn under images/ or something. I'm not keen on doing that. The point remains that this is not mintty-specific, and it's bound to always be somewhat out-of-date and incomplete. 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. 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. GDI font linking could be mentioned there as well, which is a Windows font fallback scheme that can be configured in the registry at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink. Also, the Character Map utility, which displays all the glyphs in a font. Andy -- 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