[mpeg-OTspec] Re: [OpenType] MS Proposal for a new Name Table ID

[John Hudson]

On 09/01/13 11:34 PM, Jelle Bosma wrote:

> I understand that there may be good reasons to prevent a UI font to
> be available for general use. Such a font may have strange
> proportions, incomplete language support or other peculiar features
> to get it to work in a UI, which are OK as long as it stays in the
> UI. But surely Microsoft doesn't need to extend the OpenType format
> to have Windows hide Windows UI fonts from a Windows font selection
> mechanism. You can mark these fonts, without having to add language
> tags in all the fonts that are not UI fonts.

Note that I gave the example of identifying restricted usage intention 
such as that for a UI font as the sort of *additional* metadata that 
John Jenkins and Adam Twardoch had suggested.

This is not what MS are proposing. They are proposing simply a means of 
identifying intended script and/or language use, which so far as I can 
tell cannot be derived from any existing data set in the font.

JH


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