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Font Validator is a tool for testing fonts prior to release. This testing ensures that fonts meet Microsoft's high quality standards and perform exceptionally well on Microsoft's platform.
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CHM, and -stdout option #17

Open HinTak opened 8 years ago

HinTak commented 8 years ago

Two more items from e-mail exchanges with @pabs3 .

Migrating away from docs as CHM, and depending on Microsoft HTML Workkshop for rebuilding the CHM:

There is a CHM generator on Linux in Free Pascal but I think on Linux
it would be far better to just use plain HTML.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/chm

I had a quick look, the solution (requiring contributing developers installing a rarely used obscure compiler) seems worse than the current problem (400k of binary blob). Anyway, capture here for somebody else or my future self to look further.

A -stdout option is definitely needed, but the report written there
should be human readable, not XML.

That has been in my mind for a while, and architecturally, can be hooked up with the default (xml to temp location) with a new xslt transform to convert to txt, then put that to stdout. This gives a text output at end of run, but rather simple to do. OTOH, giving stdout as the tool runs requires a bit more structural change to the whole thing.

HinTak commented 8 years ago

The -stdout option was added in https://github.com/HinTak/Font-Validator/commit/b0955f80f801076c51083250e072ca5f8f0e93cc