[discovery] Font preview text strings

[pathumego]

For #19. @lpsandaruwan We already have a lots of test strings at hand to go for the alpha. But the actual task is not collecting them but organising them with necessary data. Once we start diggininto #37 we will revisit this, but form now we need to do the following.

• define json structure: As we discussed the test and preview text strings has to come from json objects and will come with set of tags and metadata that correspond to tags. (ie: When a user select Sinhala language to filter, the test string will switch to Sinhala)
• Once we have that structure I can start putting together the test strings in that json structure. I would like to keep the sources in yaml and convert that in the build.
• Text strings for font-box previews [discovery] Font preview options #19
• Text strings for test compare view [test-compare-view] Implement test compare view #26

[lpsandaruwan]

What came to my mind is a YAML structure like this,

English:
    - sentence:
        - DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.
        - Vamp fox held quartz duck just by wing.
    - para:
        - Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

[lpsandaruwan]

Using a structure like this, when you query using an option I can pass strings as a JSON, a list like below, and loop it on font boxes,
["sentense1", "sentense2", "sentense3"]

[pathumego]

Can we use a subset of this structure that we discussed?

[lpsandaruwan]

No problem.

[pathumego]

Okays, I will start organising the texts. If i update and maintain the texts in testexts repo, we can include it in as a submodule and process and take only the needed json right? That way we can outsource the whole text strings part :)

[lpsandaruwan]

It is better, tell me when testtexts is ready, so then I can start implementing Fontman core module to read from testtexts. 👍

[pathumego]

CC @ruwanego

[lpsandaruwan]

@pathumego Any updates? :-)