Re: [ft-devel] too many old DynaLab fonts in tricky list?

[suzuki toshiya]

Dear Werner,

Thank you for prompt reply! OK, I will postpone my proposal about
keyword search for the copyright string, to the day when the list
becomes too large.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

P.S.
there could be a day when some people complain the behaviour
dealing the latest non-tricky fonts as tricky and disabling
the subpixel rendering and autohinting X-D.

On 11/3/2017 7:10 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Although concrete examples in my hand are only 3: DFHSGothic-W5,
> > DFHSMincho-W3, DFHSMincho-W7, I guess all of
> > DFHS{Gothic,Mincho}-W{3,5,7,9} in same version would have once been
> > tricky.  Should we add all of them into tricky font list?
>
> Good question.  Probably yes.
>
> > I think the checksums should be listed, but I'm questionable whether
> > the family names should be listed, because DynaLab's implementations
> > are not tricky since 1996.
>
> Yep.
>
> > Considering that DynaLab might have changed their policy around
> > 1995-1996 for most products shipped by themselves, it could be an
> > option that search "DynaLab" plus "1992-1995" as the indicator of
> > tricky fonts.
>
> Hmm, probably overkill IMHO.
>
> > Such vendor & time checking is too complicated to reduce the
> > step-by-step improvement of the tricky font name list?
>
> Yes, I agree, it's probably not worth the effort.  The number of
> tricky fonts is very small; we can essentially catch all of them.  In
> case the list gets too large we might try to hash them.
>
>
>      Werner