Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Derek P. Moore wrote:
>This script is fine and dandy assuming TTF and OTF fonts are in seperate
>directories.
That is ugly of course, and so I hope to see future improvements
that permit all fonts to live in one huge directory if desired.
That's a ways off though IMHO, at least for core fonts.
I don't see it as ugly. I see it as a good thing. Dumping all fonts into
a single directory (ala M$) is a maintance nightmare.
Enforcing the splits, help in the long run. Sure the learning curve is a
bit steeper, but that's better than the alternative.
Imagine dumping english and metric screws in one box and trying to find
the corect screw to fit a given nut. If the english and metric are
seperated, it helps a lot. Your eyes/hands get you close, but
distinguishing english and metric is nearly impossible.
Same with finding a given font in a directory full of them. Seperating
them in to smaller subsets is needed as long as there is a difference in
how/where TTF, OTF, Type1, and others are used.
-Thomas