* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, November 05, 2005 at 00:32:11 +0100: > Christian Ebert wrote: >> On a more serious side: the kerning w/o LaTeX font metrics is a >> catastrophy. As I wrote in another post I'd be much more >> interested to get the TeX-backend working with lilypond-book >> (because I mainly set texts and not much notes) and to be able to >> compile it myself (w/o another ghostscript installation etc.) >> >> I still think giving up the TeX-backend (quality) in favor of >> seemingly easier use is the wrong direction to take. Because what >> I like(d) about lilypond is that it aimed at quality as first >> priority and no foul compromises. > > I think this is a flawed analysis.
It sure is, especially as it wasn't meant as an analysis. It was meant as an observation and an interpretation by me as a user. Compared to earlier versions I had more difficulties to get lilypond going and I get text output of less good quality. So I described my fear that lilypond might lose the qualities I chose it for. I am sure you had valid reasons to go the direction you went, but from my subjective point of view it means at least a momentary loss. > TeX might be good at some things, > from a technical point of view it's complete nightmare. I love nightmares ;-) > The design with > Pango is much more versatile, and while it's not perfect yet, it will be > if only for the shere mass of Pango. It powers much of GTK, and with a > wide audience comes a wide array of hackers. > > If you want to use TeX, be my guest; there still is a TeX backend, > > lilypond -b tex foo.ly I hope to get it working with lilypond-book too, because that's what I mainly need. > which uses TeX to get exact metrics. It might have bitrotted a bit, but > if you're keen on using it, I trust that you will produce nice patches. As I am not a programmer I know to /apply/ patches a little bit. But I'll try if I can find the time. > You will have to compile Lily by yourself, though. I will keep trying because I want to keep profiting from you phantastic work. c -- _B A U S T E L L E N_ lesen! --->> <http://www.blacktrash.org/baustellen.html> _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
