Re: Your help needed

From	rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Your help needed
Date	2016-10-17 22:49 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<nu3ki0$k4c$1@reader2.panix.com> (permalink)
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In article <1ea06acd-8fa2-1b67-d19f-fefff8df79ee@tinaja.com>,
don lancaster  <don@tinaja.com> wrote:
>On 10/17/2016 12:26 PM, Rod Dorman wrote:
>> In article <e6ftldFr7dfU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> don lancaster  <don@tinaja.com> wrote:
>>> I need your help on a project.
>>>
>>> http://www.tinaja.com/psFontnames.psl is the start
>>> of what should eventually become a master list of all
>>> known PostScript fontnames. So far, there are nearly 3000
>>> entries.
>>>
>>> This should make finding otherwise hard to find
>>> names a lot simpler and straightforward, besides
>>> greatly easing your own PostScript programming.
>>>
>>> An upcoming ( working but sort of not quite done )
>>> program needs this to let you scan a PC for all
>>> available currently linked PostScript fonts. And
>>> show their exact appearance from the font name.
>>>
>>> Would you please...
>>>
>>> 1. Report any typos or alphabatizing issues
>>
>> Theres several duplicates
>> Castellar found at lines:  585  611
>> KeplerStd-BlackExtSubh found at lines:  1801  1806
>> RotisSansSerifStd-Italic found at lines:  2908  2919
>> UniversLTStd-Light found at lines:  3320  3343  3357
>> UniversLTStd-LightCn found at lines:  3321  3344  3358
>> UniversalStd-GreekwMathPi found at lines:  3319  3356
>> UniversalStd-NewswithCommPi found at lines:  3322  3359
>> WilhelmKlingsporGotLTStd found at lines:  3534  3536
>>
>> and it seems like theres several A..Z ranges in the list.
>>
>
>Thank you for the corrections. A thousand additions should shortly be made.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by A...Z

You asked about "alphabatizing issues" and the list wasn't in a
strict A to Z order.

>I purposely "broke" true alphabitizing if an "a" or "itc" prefix
>was needed. As it seemed more appropriate for all the Garamonds
>to be at the same place in the list.

Ah, that explains it, I was thinking "alphabitizing" meant
strict A to Z.

>The font snooper could not care less what order the names are
>in.

Yeah but people do :-)
Makes it easier to check if a font is on your list.

-- 
					-- Rod --
rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com

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Your help needed don lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2016-10-15 16:50 -0700
  Re: Your help needed Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-10-16 11:33 +0200
  Re: Your help needed Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 16:34 -0700
  Re: Your help needed Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 18:54 -0700
    Re: Your help needed don lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2016-10-16 21:58 -0700
      Re: Your help needed Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 22:55 -0700
  Re: Your help needed rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2016-10-17 19:26 +0000
    Re: Your help needed don lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2016-10-17 14:11 -0700
      Re: Your help needed rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2016-10-17 22:49 +0000

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