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["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote:
> 2008/12/4 Mojca Miklavec:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here's a suggestion from Hans ... The idea about including some sample
>> documents when installing minimals sounds OK to me, but I would add
>> some "my first document"-like files to warm up the users, and maybe
>> some more files for testing. In that case it would make sense to have
>> some repository with files somewhere.
> Include test files in minimals sounds useful, but hard to maintain.
> You/we may verify than they:
> a) work
> b) work with pdftex engine
> c) work with xetex engine
> .....
> unless we include trivial files, but that sounds useless.
> A wiki page 'download test files' can be better maintained/improved by users.
>
> Instead, what you think about a repository with tested working typescripts?
> A lot of messages in list are fonts-related.
> We could create a page with:
> fontname, license, url, url-typescript-download.

You just gave me some ideas, but maybe the discussion should move to
ntg-context. If I "forget" to write something about that to the main
list within two weeks, please remind me.

My idea would be to:
- add a --test and --demo switch to mtx-update
- it would sync some repository that we or users can create (but there
should be one moderator)
- one would also need to add some rules for building files (lua
tables): some test files only make sense for luatex, some only for
pdftex, some *should* fail
- one could take a look at what Sanjoy did a while ago and check
what's on the current test repository
- demo would be for newbies to give them some short examples & ideas
where to start
- test could include a short and an extensive test suite to check if
everything still works fine

Mojca

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