Re: Any help needed right now?

Mr. Carter:

How good are you at C?

Do you have experience with FreeType?

Are you good with the GNU Debugger?

Would you like to help me add emoji font support (COLR/CPAL) to FontForge?

Best,
Fred Brennan

On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 7:23:27 AM PST David Carter wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.  I will peruse this list of open
> items and pick one that I think I can tackle for starters.  I am rather
> busy at the moment (isn't everyone?) with a business to launch and a house
> and workshop move looming but I want to make this a long term commitment,
> so will work away at it in the coming months.  What I'm saying is that it
> may take me a bit of time to get up to speed on the code and the method of
> working, but I will stick with it.  I think FF seems like a potentially
> awesome piece of software that is worthy of developing and I am looking for
> a C-based project (it could have also been C++, but I think on balance C is
> much more interesting in many ways) to keep my skills honed.
> 
> My workflow at the moment is rather general and simple viz-a-viz font
> design - I need to create some proprietary fonts for use in logos, and
> also, looking at some tutorials, I think mixing calligraphy and font design
> seems like a super-rich vein of inspiration and design ideas, but how this
> all bears on FF is very general really - I'm happy to make contributions in
> any way I can at this stage.   This is to say that it seems that FF
> currently provides nearly everything that I could need and heaps more
> besides.  That said I logged a support request on SF today to see if anyone
> knows if dashed/blue/feint guidelines were possible in the Guides layer, so
> if that turns out to not be possible then I could potentially work on that,
> but I need to walk before I can run.  Meanwhile, I see there are 112 open
> bugs and 43 crash reports logged so they seem like a more useful place to
> start, to get familiar with the codebase and the contributing mechanisms.
> 
> WIth kind regards,
> David Carter.





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