On 10 March 2014 13:50, Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk> wrote:
I think the Latin-centric view is that any standard English pangram
is
reasonable, so they don't supply it.
Yes, that's fair enough.
Non-Latin scripts would really benefit from some good sample text.
Is there any precedent here? Like a Punjabi version of "How quickly
daft jumping zebras vex" that shows off the majority of the glyphs?
As the font packaging guidelines now require us to make font
metadata
corrections for licence-related strings, meaning you'll see more font
packages using tools like ttname, it isn't a big leap to suggest that we
also supply readsonable sample text, and suggest that upstream include it.
That would be awesome. More fonts also using
TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_FAMILY correctly would be great for my uses too.
Richard.