Naming Convention for Text Primitives

[Chris Dee]

After having read....

http://www.ldraw.org/library/primref/#misctext

.....through these rules for the naming of text-primitives, I have discovered a mental conflict for me:

The identification of the style ("Bold", "Italic", "Condensed" .... and so on) remains to be missed.

and of course, and certainly, a combination of these different styles

How should that be handled?

As a recent example:

http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...peswn7.dat



| Type | Swiss BT | Number | "7" | Bold |

| type | sw | n | 7 | ? |



How should the "Bold" be included in the figuring?


"b" for Bold as an initial :   "b_typeswn7.dat"     <<< about like that?

or as appendix :                "typeswn7b.dat"        or better ...... 7_b?


It would be good to add a general definition to that, including a fixed letter choice for the styles.

Looking forward to a timely happy solution

This was defined in era of the 8.3 naming restrictions. I'd be happy to extend this to include the font (typeface) name, e.g. type-swissbt-bold-n7.dat

The general case would be

Code:

type-{fontname}-{style}-{glyph-class}{character-code}.dat

where style is (nornal, bold, italic, etc) glyph-class is (u=upper case letter, l=lower case letter, n=number, s=symbol, a=upper case accented letter, b=lower case accented letter) and character-code is the glyph identifier (a-z for the upper and lower case letters, 0-9 for the numbers, arbitrary for symbols).

Now would be the time to fix this before Uli's Swiss BT primitives get released. I can do the renames.

Comments?