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Re: Libre Barcode Project

#11

Post by albert_e »

utopiah wrote: post #6

Damn, yes please. Another cool font, but less original, I stumbled upon recently is Marelle https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ for cursive.

> https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/

This website is in French so I was unable tounderstand the text

and the website is very resistant to automatic translation by Google Translate

>https://marelle-forge-apps-education-fr.translate.goog/?_x_t...

What gives?

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#13

Post by Terr_ »

nemoniac wrote: post #12

ASCII only?

More or less, AFAICT the underlying barcode standards don't support Unicode, if that's what you mean.

It looks like Code 128 could potentially handle some ISO-8859-1 accented latin characters, but I'm not sure how to test it.

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#14

Post by utopiah »

albert_e wrote: post #11
utopiah wrote: post #6

Damn, yes please. Another cool font, but less original, I stumbled upon recently is Marelle https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ for cursive.

> https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ This website is in French so I was unable tounderstand the text and the website is very resistant to automatic translation by Google Translate > https://marelle-forge-apps-education-fr.translate.goog/?_x_t... What gives?

No problem translating it with Firefox :

" Marelle is a free cursive police force for teaching writing in elementary school. Introduction

This project is supported by the Digital Directorate for Education of the Ministry of National Education, and developed in the Forge of Digital Educational Commons.

The Marelle police is designed specifically for teaching cursive writing in elementary school, it was developed by a team of teachers and designers specialized in writing systems.

Teaching Cursive Writing

Structure and sequence of letters, rhythm and proportion, contextual variants: the Marelle font was thought around specific criteria to offer a quality model to teachers and students. Particular attention has been paid to the trace of numbers, capital letters and punctuation. A complete professional tool

The Marelle police offers 3 types of variants:

    uppercase sticks or cursive
    with or without lineage Seyes
    height of ascendants and descendants
These variants can be combined to best meet the needs of teachers and students." etc

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#15

Post by piltboy »

albert_e wrote: post #11
utopiah wrote: post #6

Damn, yes please. Another cool font, but less original, I stumbled upon recently is Marelle https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ for cursive.

> https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ This website is in French so I was unable tounderstand the text and the website is very resistant to automatic translation by Google Translate > https://marelle-forge-apps-education-fr.translate.goog/?_x_t... What gives?

"Marelle is a free cursive font designed for teaching handwriting in [French] elementary school."

I'm not sure they owe it to anyone to make the website available in English :-)

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#16

Post by ale42 »

Terr_ wrote: post #13
nemoniac wrote: post #12

ASCII only?

More or less, AFAICT the underlying barcode standards don't support Unicode, if that's what you mean. It looks like Code 128 could potentially handle some ISO-8859-1 accented latin characters, but I'm not sure how to test it.

Code 128 supports some ISO-8859-1 indeed, but it requires switching between encodings (there are 3 of them), and couldn't work with 128B (I guess the one used by the font, as it supports ASCII). See the table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_128

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#17

Post by jurgemaister »

utopiah wrote: post #14
albert_e wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ This website is in French so I was unable tounderstand the text and the website is very resistant to automatic translation by Google Translate > https://marelle-forge-apps-education-fr.translate.goog/?_x_t... What gives?

No problem translating it with Firefox : " Marelle is a free cursive police force for teaching writing in elementary school. Introduction This project is supported by the Digital Directorate for Education of the Ministry of National Education, and developed in the Forge of Digital Educational Commons. The Marelle police is designed specifically for teaching cursive writing in elementary school, it was developed by a…

> cursive police force

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#19

Post by alex_suzuki »

This would be more interesting if you wouldn’t need to calculate checksums yourself, and could just write the barcode value. Good luck doing that with something like Reed-Solomon (QR, Data Matrix, etc.) or the shenanigans they’re doing with GS1 DataBar.

Re: Libre Barcode Project

#20

Post by tecleandor »

utopiah wrote: post #6

Damn, yes please. Another cool font, but less original, I stumbled upon recently is Marelle https://marelle.forge.apps.education.fr/ for cursive.

Nice! That looks pretty similar to the one in "Cuadernos Rubio", a system that was super popular from the 60s to the 90s in Spain (that still exists) for learning handwriting in primary school.
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