Comment 4 for bug 373446

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 373446] Re: Bazaar support for font creation and development

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 23:35 +0000, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Ideally loggerhead would provide a way to render selected glyphs (each
> glyph is a separate foo.glyph file: see the spec:
> http://unifiedfontobject.org/filestructure/glyphs.html) and would also
> parse and show the metadata about the font itself (this is stored in
> fontinfo.plist
> http://unifiedfontobject.org/filestructure/fontinfo.html).
>
> BTW I'm working on adapting to bzr the fontforge script written by Max
> Rabkin for mercurial integration: http://freehg.org/u/taejo/ffhg/.
> Basically menu entries to create a local branch with your font sources,
> commit new revs, be able to go through the revs by launching a
> repository viewer, go back to a chosen revision and possibly compare two
> revs.

I'd tackle this initially with a branch of loggerhead for fonts; and
after its feature complete look at turning it into a plugin for
loggerhead to ease maintenance.

-Rob