name ID proposed changes

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Bring the discussion back on the AHG list ...

Hi Sairus,

The main purpose of the proposal from Josh (as I understand it) wasn't to change the description of the Name ID 6 but to rather make it a non-normative, so that the font that doesn't have both Name ID 6 strings defined for two platforms would still be considered a compliant font. Nothing else changes, and it following your response and other comments I simply moved the rest of the Name ID 6 description to the Recommendations section (see attached the latest version of the comments).

If you disagree with the proposed change as a whole, we can postpone it until the next time and I can still remove Name ID 6 related changes. Please let me know if you are okay with the way how proposed changes are defined now, or if you do want to remove them from the ballot comments.

Thank you,
Vlad


From: Sairus Patel [mailto:sppatel at adobe.com]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 3:30 PM
To: Levantovsky, Vladimir
Subject: name ID proposed changes

Vlad,
2-3 days to research and decide on whether to accept this proposal seems very short. Joshua proposed it 6/10, and it has to be approved by today?
Did I miss a previous proposal attempt? I know that Josh has wanted to do something about name ID 6 for a while now, but that's when we undertook to revise the entire name table in a similar way, an effort that didn't go anywhere since MS didn't participate (among other reasons).
I want to consult our PostScript expert here at Adobe but she's on vacation right now.
Sairus

From: "mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com<mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com>" <mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com<mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com>>
Reply-To: Joshua Hadley <Joshua.Hadley at monotypeimaging.com<mailto:Joshua.Hadley at monotypeimaging.com>>
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 11:23 AM
To: "mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com<mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com>" <mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com<mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com>>
Subject: [mpeg-OTspec] Proposal to modify wording for name table ID 6



The wording for the name table, name ID 6, currently reads (in part):
"OpenType fonts which include a name with name ID of 6 shall include these two names with name ID 6, and characteristics as follows:" (goes on to list Mac/Roman and Windows/Unicode entries)

While this may have been true for some implementations in the past (or even today), it is certainly not a requirement for validity of an OpenType font in general. Much of the remaining wording is also very implementation-specific (FOND resources?!?). I'd like to propose a vast simplification of the wording for name ID 6, replacing the entire current entry with:

"Postscript name for the font; Name ID 6 specifies a string which is used to invoke a PostScript language font that corresponds to this OpenType font.

When translated to ASCII, the name string must be no longer than 63 characters and restricted to the printable ASCII subset, codes 33-126, except for the 10 characters '[', ']', '(', ')', '{', '}', '<', '>', '/', '%'.
"

And that's all. If deemed important by stakeholders, the remaining text could be moved to the recommendations section as non-normative, implementation-specific advice.

Thanks,

Joshua Hadley
Monotype

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