Copyright question re:reworked fonts

[Windell Oskay]

Here is a more comprehensive list: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendorlist.aspx

[Shel]

Your web link – Wow, nice resource.

[ EDIT: Yikes!  I just noticed that my copy of hershey.inx differs from the version in github, in places where I made no changes.  I have no idea where the changes came from, and I’m assuming but not knowing that I started from the hershey.inx that installed with eggbot.  Yipers! ]

You are ever-so-correct about the name collisions – I’ve given up – every name in this corner of the galaxy is already in use – and am avoiding the name duplication by considering “EMS ” prefix as part of the name.  See files in dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzogscmg0wlrrw4/hershey%20EMS%2001.zip?dl=0

[Windell Oskay]

Ah; about those name collisions– I meant that the new names (“bird,” “capitol,” “delight”) were likely to have collisions, rather than the prefixes. Anyway, let’s run with it. I have some new ideas for other enhancements to Hershey Text as well. :)

[Shel]

I understood what you meant, and what I meant was that it seems virtually impossible to generate any new names without resorting to a random word generator.  Perhaps I’m overstating the case.  If you think it’s important I’ll generate some kind of unique names, just give the word.

Important – see my edit to my previous post, regarding hershey.inx.

[Windell Oskay]

I’ve started a new branch at GitHub to track this, with your current version as the starting point: https://github.com/evil-mad/EggBot/tree/HersheyText-expanded

The differences between your .inx file and the one from GitHub are actually those added by the Inkscape developers when they added it to the codebase.

[Shel]

Oooh, will I have to wait a long time to hear about your Hershey Text enhancements???  8^)

[Windell Oskay]

This may be different enough that it belongs in a separate extension, but I’m thinking about replacing a block of text with stroke-based text.  This becomes much more appealing with the additional fonts that you have added.

[Shel]

Whoa!  That would definitely be a neat trick indeed!  8^)

[Windell Oskay]

I’ve made some first-round revisions to that branch– chiefly adding some detailed credits for each of the fonts, re-arranging the list slightly, tweaking the display of the font table, and revising the text and formatting of the extension. Please take a look!

[Shel]

Lovely – what a professional job you do!!

[Windell Oskay]

Thanks! One more round of minor updates pushed, just now.  

Also, while pondering that new Hershey Text extension, I’m thinking about moving Hershey Text development out of the EggBot repository (https://github.com/evil-mad/EggBot) and into the “plotink” repository (https://github.com/evil-mad/plotink/), which is our generalized set of plotter helper routines. 

[Windell Oskay]

I’ve made a few more changes for clarity and better centering, and merged it into the main branch. *Thank you* for all your hard work on this! I suppose that making a font editor is another good topic for the future. :)

[Shel]

I’ve added three more useful (to me, anyway) fonts: EMS Decorous Script, EMS Readability, and EMS Readability Italic.  I’ve followed your lead in the crediting information.

The dropbox link is for hersheydata.py and hershey.inx, based on the current github versions.  I’ve also taken the liberty of adding a version number to each, anticipating that as time goes on other fonts may be added.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0emf1awgmwo0lg/hersheydata%20v2_0_1.zip?dl=0

Also, a “heads-up”:  I’ll soon be sending a revised version of spiral-text which allows for selection from the new variety of fonts.  Name-poem probably wants to be addressed as well.

[Shel]

Well, here are the spiral text files modified.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/duxodmw1v00x4cf/eggbot_spiraltext.zip?dl=0

[Windell Oskay]

Thanks! These look like great improvements, and I’ve added them to the repository already.  I’m a fan of Source Sans Pro, so it’s especially nice to have that one on the list. :)

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