From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 19:17:57 EDT
At 02:50 PM 5/7/2003, Brian Doyle wrote:
>They do, however, caution against "rabid, ad hominem attacks," which I think
>aptly describes Mr. Hudson's post (below). Furthermore, spam is defined as
>"unsolicited commercial and bulk e-mail." Aesthetic objections to a
>subscriber's announced work do not justify launching into an invective (and
>unprofessional) tirade.
>
>For the benefit of list newbies like myself, perhaps some "knowledgeable"
>person would care to share the unspoken list rules so that flame wars can be
>averted.
I don't think my comments constituted 'rabid, ad hominem attacks', and am
pleased that Sarasvati does not consider them so. I did not attack William
Overington the man: I strongly criticised what he had produced and his
insistence on (repeatedly) announcing the products of his creativity as if
they were of lesser general interest only to the Second Coming. Over the
years, I've seen a few half-baked character encodings and invincible
misconceptions roundly trounced and ridiculed on this list, and I don't see
why fonts should not be held to the same standard of rugged criticism.
That said I'm ceratinly keen to avert a flame war, for the good of the
community, and am content not to say any more on the matter. I have sent
Willian, offlist, the MS Font Validator report for his font, detailing the
various outline and table errors. If he wants to learn something about type
design, so he can understand my aesthetic objections (which are not matters
of taste or opinion, but relate to what Albrecht Durer characterised as
'the just shaping of letters'), I'm happy to suggest some reading to him. I
will do this off list, because I don't think it is any more appropriate to
this forum that William's original announcement.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
As for the technique of trimming the nib,
Do not be greedy!
I will not reveal its nuances; I withhold its secrets.
- Ibn al-Bawwab, Ra'iyyah
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