Template talk:Serie latin letters

I think most if not everything linked to by this template should be SVG. Superm401 10:58, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Nope. Torniello or Pacioli didn't create SVGs but drawings from which we have scans which are usually represented as PNGs. --AFBorchert 09:49, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Can you tell me what part of the template that's from? Anyway, I know the first row (Latin X.svg) was created on a computer, and that's what I'm replacing first; see below. Superm401 00:24, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I see the Torniello drawings are the last row. Anyway, I wouldn't remake historical drawings as SVG. That would just be inaccurate. Superm401 07:54, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Fonts

The serif font in the first row is similar, but not identical to, Century Schoolbook L, which is a supported font. Thus, that could be used for SVG recreations. Superm401 11:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Script

This is a script to create Latin B-Z from Latin A.svg. Unfortunately, the width needs to be adjusted manually:

#!/bin/sh

alphabet="b c d e f g h i j k l m n ñ o p q r s t u v w x y z"

for i in $alphabet; do
cap=$(echo "$i" | tr '[a-z]ñ' '[A-Z]Ñ')
sed "s/Aa/$cap$i/" Latin\ A.svg > Latin\ $cap.svg
done

--Superm401 00:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Image:Latin A.svg through Image:Latin N.svg have been uploaded so far. Superm401 01:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I have remade all of the first row as SVG, and will change the template to use them unless anyone objects. Superm401 07:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

While it is indeed tempting to create SVG files the way you propose, I dare think this misses the point of having such images here completely. I mean, the only reason for those images to exist here is so that people who don't know how this or that letter looks like, can look at the image and learn it. Yet if the SVG file contains the letter in text/font format, not in contour form, it makes that file device-dependent. That is, the viewer will see the intended curves if and only if that exact font is already available on their computer; if substitutions are available, the curves will be similar; if not, the viewer won't see a damn thing. You might think it is not that much of a problem when it comes to Latin alphabet, but even with "ñ" it can already cause technical singularities, never mind "Щ" or "䶵". --spider 11:24, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

By default, the image pages (and any inclusions) will show you a PNG rendered by rsvg with the chosen font (Century Schoolbook L). Only if the viewer chooses to view the SVG file manually will they potentially have a problem. Superm401 - Talk 12:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)