Re: SMuFL

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

a short comment:

2013/8/11 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I think "so poorly documented that in practice almost no one can
>>> understand how it works" still can't qualify as "in effect
>>> proprietary".
>>
>> It is not *that* badly documented.  However, the number of people who
>> understand Metafont are rather small today.
>
> git shortlog -sn mf/
>    459  Han-Wen Nienhuys
>    160  Jan Nieuwenhuizen
>    104  Werner Lemberg
>     20  Jürgen Reuter
>     16  Carl D. Sorensen
>     15  Janek Warchoł
>     11  Mats Bengtsson
>      7  Bertrand Bordage
>      7  Maximilian Albert
>      4  David Kastrup
>      4  Graham Percival
>      4  John Mandereau
>      4  Phil Holmes
>      4  Tom Cato Amundsen
>      3  Erlend Aasland
>      3  Marc Hohl
>      3  Patrick McCarty
>      3  Reinhold Kainhofer
>      3  Rune Zedeler
>      2  Aleksandr Andreev
>      2  Neil Puttock
>      1  Benkő Pál
>      1  Carsten Steger
>      1  Glen Prideaux
>      1  Julien Rioux
>      1  Mark Polesky
>      1  Michael Welsh Duggan
>      1  Nicolas Sceaux
>
> Some of those will have worked on the build system rather than the fonts
> themselves, but I doubt that all of those working on the fonts had
> previous exposure to Metafont/Metapost.

All my commits concerned Metafont, but i would never say that i
*understand* Metafont.  I was just juggling with some numbers, trying
like monkey until it worked.
And as i'm pretty high on the list, this really means that few people
understand Metafont.

Janek