<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi Yash<div><br></div><div><div>We have only 3 weeks left, so Eli and I want to review the code and work directly with you on this, but it will be inefficient if we are working on old code. </div></div><div><br></div><div>So I want to ask you to send a daily 3-line email for each work day for the next 15 days, and also to push your work in progress to a branch at least once per day, noting the branch in the email.</div><div><br></div><div>The simplified user story is,</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">You open a UFO of Geo Regular (10 mins to make a UFO of this and bundle it in the activity :)</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">see the 101 glyphs available, from</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/tools/encodings/latin_unique-glyphs.nam#L3-L103" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/tools/encodings/latin_unique-glyphs.nam#L3-L103</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> (done)</span><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">open a glyph, (done)</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">move the existing points around (done)<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">save your work in a UFOZ to the journal,<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">export your font as a OTF (using font family name "$USER"),</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">install the OTF in the system,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">and use it in another activity.</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd like to suggest adding 1 thing after that: setting a font family name incrementally, "$USER $NUMBER", where we get the username and list of all fonts installed, and find the highest value of "$USER $NUMBER" and add 1 to it, eg "Yash 0004"<br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Once that works, I suggest to halt writing new code and work on the code documentation, the .xo packaging, the travis build checking, and other 'non code' development tasks, so that we can end in 3 weeks with something fun for kids to play with :)</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">I think the next user story after this could be another month or two of development:</span><br></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra">You make a new font,</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra">name the font,</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra">see the pre-set<span style="font-size:12.8px"> 101 glyphs,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">open a glyph,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra">add 1 or more closed (maybe only straight line) contours to the glyph,</div><div class="gmail_extra">move the existing points around,</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra">set sidebearings,</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra">save your work in a UFOZ,</div><div class="gmail_extra">export your font as a OTF (using "$FONTNAME 0001")</div><div class="gmail_extra">install the OTF in the system,</div><div class="gmail_extra">and use it in another activity.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><div>But I don't think we have time in 3 weeks to tackle these things. I think it would be better to focus on making what we have more polished. </div></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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