[mpeg-OTspec] AHG Kick-off

Ken Lunde lunde at adobe.com
Sat Feb 18 04:29:40 CET 2012


Jim,

To address your second paragraph, the 'name' attribute of the 'ComponentDef' element is what you're referring to, and it indeed specifies the PostScript name of the subfont. It can contain other elements and specify other attributes, but only the 'name' attribute is required.

Regards...

-- Ken

On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:25 PM, James Cloos wrote:

> >>>>> "LV" == Levantovsky, Vladimir <vladimir.levantovsky at monotypeimaging.com> writes:
> 
> LV> I am afraid the copy of the standard can only be obtained via ISO Web Store
> 
> If those who participated in creating a spec cannot get a copy of it w/o
> wasting cash (for which at least some of us have zero budget), then the
> iso lacks any value as a standards organization.
> 
> The last draft of the composite font format posted here, before things
> went off list, was far from ready for publication. One would at the
> very least like to know whether any of the issues I wrote about were
> addressed. (Especially sub-font naming. Specifying subfonts only by
> postscript name, as I previously wrote, makes implementation impossible
> on current fontconfig-based systems.)
> 
> -JimC
> -- 
> James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
> 
> 




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