Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!newsfeed-00-ls.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Your help needed Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <1ea06acd-8fa2-1b67-d19f-fefff8df79ee@tinaja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1476744576 20620 166.84.1.1 (17 Oct 2016 22:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:49:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2898 In article <1ea06acd-8fa2-1b67-d19f-fefff8df79ee@tinaja.com>, don lancaster wrote: >On 10/17/2016 12:26 PM, Rod Dorman wrote: >> In article , >> don lancaster 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