Comment 14 for bug 615435
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| Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny) wrote Re: [Bug 615435] Re: Style: switch numerals to (pnum/proportional) by default instead of fixed-width (tnum/tabular) | #14 |
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:18:32AM -0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> Khaled: I think the implication here that the Ubuntu Font Family will
> be:
>
> 1. a Libre typeface
> 2. with OpenType features
> 3. deployed (by default) on *alot* of Desktops
>
> at which point the incentive to fix applications is there, which will
> in-turn mean fixing the whole stack. Is that what you were worried
> about (the scale of it)? If so, I think it's what's being seen as a net-
> positive in the long-run from Mark's point-of-view.
I sincerely hope that will happen sooner than later, but I'm not holding
my breath. I've been around for a while and things has always been
stagnant, we still have famous FOSS DTP applications that no nothing
about OpenType, yet to speak about fine control.
Even so, until then you still have to make a decision, so my initial
comment still applies.
> Regarding the private-use area (which is clearly marked as such), it
> provides a stop-gap means for accessing otherwise unmapped glyphs on
> older systems. It's certainly not to be encouraged, but is it a bad
> thing to provide that level of compatibility. At the moment, if
> somebody asks "how do I get such-and-such", we have an answer for them
> even if their software isn't OpenType alternatives-ready.
I totally agree, but a clear distinction and the implications of using
PUA must pointed to prominently to however using PUA is suggested to.