[xep-support] Re: Where to put true-type fonts?

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:50 AM, jens quade <jq@qdevelop.de> wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
>> The parser for the xep.xml file is broken. Leave off the trailing
>> slash ("/") and notice what happens (the training path is dropped,
>> which results in BadFontDataException):
>>
>> <font-group xml:base="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts"
>> [error] Cannot read font metric from file:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Arial.ttf
>
> I think this implementation is correct (and probably some xml library stuff) -- see
>
> RFC 3986 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
> 5.2.3. Merge Paths
>
> """ return a string consisting of the reference's path component
> appended to all but the last segment of the base URI's path (i.e.,
> excluding any characters after the right-most "/" in the base URI
> path, or excluding the entire base URI path if it does not contain
> any "/" characters).
> """
Well, it seems to be a problem in real life, despite what the RFC says.

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Received on Fri Nov 8 07:05:52 2013