@simoncozens We've overlooked your post, apologies. The FastSpring stores system will give you the $149 equivalent once you use your FL7 serial number as the "Coupon code". It's unfortunate how it works but we'll try to make it more clear.

@justvanrossum @Sveinbjorn @eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @jeremiehornus @glyphs Some languages may disambiguate more strongly by using terms like »troquel« in French, which is the matrice in the sense of a die, a form from which you cast stuff — casting isn't limited to type casting of course.

@justvanrossum @Sveinbjorn @eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @jeremiehornus @glyphs "A matrix and a matrice" in German would be "eine Matrix und eine Matrize", in Dutch perhaps "een matrix en een matrijs", in Polish "macierz i matryca". In other languages they may converge, though. I'm not insisting on it, just providing alternatives. "Source" in my view is even more ambiguous.

@justvanrossum @Sveinbjorn @eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @jeremiehornus @glyphs My friend Claude de Antropic says: There is another singular form, "matrice," derived from the Latin word "matrix" and used in some specific contexts in English. In printmaking and sculpture, a "matrice" is a mold or a die used to create a relief or intaglio print, or to cast a sculpture. "Matrice" keeps the connection to the historical use in font casting and typesetting but is distinct from "matrix".

@eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @justvanrossum @jeremiehornus @glyphs The real bonus is the ease of transition from master to matrix (which will also work in many other languages). And let's keep in mind that "matrix" comes from "mater", the Mother. So it is the Parent ;) EDIT: Matrice would be even better than matrix.

@eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @justvanrossum @jeremiehornus @glyphs Let's remember that we do use "font", which is related to fountain etc., it does have to do with the process of pouring liquid metal. A matrix might be the master, and then the punches really are the "elements" (in FontLab terms), the pure faces that are used in simple matrices and also in composite matrices.

@eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @justvanrossum @jeremiehornus @glyphs I know there is the "affine transformation matrix" but its use is very narrow. Certainly narrower than of "source". "Parent" is ok, but then again, and we already have the "family", but I'm not sure if people don't already use the parent-child metaphor for describing other kinds of relationships between glyphs (like with use of components).

@eWalthert @letterror @MauriceMeilleur @justvanrossum @jeremiehornus @glyphs So we could almost losslessly rename »MM« to be multiple matrices or multimatrice. The instance is a result of a particular process of mixing the matrices via interpolation. That's something metal type didn't have, but conceptually it's not a huge leap.