[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Yash Agarwal]

Hi,
Dave said on IM:
> i am worried that you dropped out of contact in the last week
There were some issues with my Harddrive and I had to get it changed (it
wasn't a software issue)
Everything is working fine now and I'll be working again from today
I've made the week 6 report here
<https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/week-6-work>

What I plan to do today?
I'm working on adding the remaining features required for the minimum
viable product:
1. a feature to add contours
2. a feature to add glyphs


On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:58 AM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
>
> On 2 July 2016 at 04:35, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'll make the complete week report on Sunday
>
>
> (Posted on the blog at
> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/minimum-viable-product)
>
> I spoke to Yash on IM and he's suffered a hardware failure over the
> weekend so he's slipped a few days.
>
> I am worried that we now have a bunch of stuff that is half done, but the
> core user story - as I described on
> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/core-user-story - still
> isn't possible.
>
> I want to get the development to the point where users can actually do
> something useful - even if it is very simple and limited - and then have
> the development structured for iteratation. We can make the product
> definition smaller and smaller but still wide enough to cover the core user
> story process. Then when we have something people can use productively, we
> can survey the whole project and look at the weakest parts and decide on
> priorities.
>
> I suggest to focus on the early part of core user story process: we need
> to be able to make a new font, add glyphs to it, and then add contours to
> those glyphs, and set their sidebearings.
>
> To simplify creating a new font, hardcode it with these 101 glyphs -
> https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/tools/encodings/latin_unique-glyphs.nam#L3-L103
> - and forget about adding arbitrary new glyphs.
>
> To simplify the add contours part, let's forget curves for now, and just
> allow for straight lines only; then we can make fonts likehttp://
> fonts.google.com/specimen/Geo
>
> To simplify sidebearings just set them all to 600, and forget about
> editing them.
>
> Then, the user can make a new font, draw a some squarish letters in a
> monospaced design, and use their font in the write activity.
>
> Once that works, I suggest to halt writing new code and work on the code
> documentation, and the .xo packaging, the travis build checking, and
> other 'non code' development tasks.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
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