[Fontforge-devel] OpenType vs. Apple tables by default.

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It never ceases to surprise people that on the mac the default is to gene=
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tables for Apple Advanced Typography rather than OpenType. Given that in =
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Apple has started supporting OpenType itself, it may be time to do away w=
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this distinction and have the default be OpenType, on all systems.

Does anyone object to this?

It will have no effect on old interactive users, just on people using ff =
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first time -- and on people using scripts. Old interactive users will ret=
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the settings from their preference file rather than from the built in def=
ault.
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Then there is the matter that the default value of the OpenType and Apple=
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boxes of the Generate->Options dialog are controlled by preference items =
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than just being the last value set in the Options dlg.
   It seems much more ... expected ... if the default were the last value=
 set.

Does anyone object if I remove the "AlwaysGenApple" and "AlwaysGenOpenTyp=
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preferences and make the previous settings of the Options dialog define t=
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subsequent settings?

In order not to break existing scripts, calling SetPref on one of these t=
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should directly set the appropriate bit in the Options dialog (the defaul=
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for subsequent Generate).