plus and minus and … what else
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Re: plus and minus and … what else
Cant we use a fixed width font for such cases?
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Re: plus and minus and … what else
not easily
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or is it feasable to switch fonts/enabling some more characters?
With the given options:
The "no-difference-from-usual" average should be unobstructive to the eye. The "o" bullet is too big.
The diamond makes my brain stumble, + is good, - is bad, diamond is ?.. dunno girls best friends? a card option?
So I guess I like the grue eyes best as they are the least obstructive
Anyway structure/spacing is king, so e.g. diamond is also acceptable.
one nitpick: Doing layout by relying on glyph size in a certain font and font size is ugly/prone to fail. With the advantage of total ignorance of cost in build speed and download size, I think the pedia should use a minimal html layout engine with css support (godot client hopefully supports that?). If we had such a representation we could also simply render a pedia webpage to put on the web for reference when you dont have access to the game/or code (also getting more eyes on the pedia contents).
edit1: with the current implementation let us add a (small) bullet glyph with the right width to the font like 0uaz did last time (https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/pull/2801). Much better looks. And not worse a hack as misusing glyphs. Dunno what linux distributions do though - we already have the customized font so we are not creating a new problem(?).
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Re: plus and minus and … what else
copyright shmoogle? well whatever … i'll try adding a glyph
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it's a workin – am now takin orders 4 nu glyphs plz … though i'd like to have that shmoogle© thing cleared up before i'd push changes of that font
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Not sure what you mean...that shmoogle© thing
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Are there copyright issues?
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i think he meant because roboto is originally from google. (showed the copyright notice screenshot)
but it is apache license, so distributing derivatives is legitimate.
hm. actually we should write somewhere that we changed the fonts if dont do that already. (looking at the github page https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto there is no NOTICE text).
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Re: plus and minus and … what else
okay the very most prominent place that comes to mind would be the same place where i found that notice. so i'll put this in the pullrequest as well, if we there are no veto's against the diamond operator?
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darn … +2.0 on the YEARS meter
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Re: plus and minus and … what else
"freeOrion" isn't a legal entity so far as I'm aware. A modified font file is copyright (or left?) and released by you.
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seems okay then, no entity, no copyright.. no problem. i omit my own name there in that notice, but i am in the commit history should the pullrequest be deemed pullworthy, so .. if you want, i can change it again.
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Re: plus and minus and … what else
To be clear, there is copyright involved. You're licensing the font from Google under the Apache 2 license, modifying it, and then re-releasing it youself the same license. Apparently Apache 2 can't be re-released under CC-BY-SA 3.0, so I guess that's why we put the font LICENSE file in there as well.
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agreed, seeing as how they had been modified already … should we open a ticket;? but on the third hand, i suppose as long as a copy of that apache license is somewhere to be found or at least linked in the bundeled release app and together with that updated version number, that would count as fullfilling at least the spirit of those terms and conditions.