Hello Frank, thanks for the information. While unfortunately i can't help you with this problem, i think that development team should know about this issue, so i'm forwarding your mail to our bug-reporting mailing list.
thanks, Janek ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> Date: 2011/9/28 Subject: Problem with Kerning To: lilypond-u...@gnu.org Hello list A few months ago I wrote about mis-shaped glyphs (about which noone was able to help). I recently found out that the feta font itself is borked on my Gentoo system (and I discovered the same errors in Debian Squeeze’s), both are 2.12.3 I think. So I installed lilypond in my virtual Ubuntu; I know this looks right because a friend uses it. But alas, I had to discover thusly that the Ubuntu-lilypond doesn’t do kerning as nicely as my Gentoo setup. I am using TeX Gyre as default font, because it’s a little nicer to look at. Interestingly, the Gentoo-version has simple ttf files of the font, whereas in Ubuntu the Gyre package installed a set of otf files. If I use the default lilypond CM font, the result looks the same for the two systems, so the problem seems to be with how lilypond (or the underlying text renderer) digests the external font. See the attached minimal example and screenshots thereof for the difference: - the space between W and a in Water - the space between T and r in Translated - the space between T and . in S.A.T.B. PS about the borked font issue: I copied all files in /usr/share/lilypond/2.12.3/fonts/ from Ubuntu over to Gentoo and naturally the latter renders well now. But when comparing the two version of, for instance, type1/feta18.pfb in a font viewer, I noticed that the Gentoo version show slightly less spacing between some glyhps. Could that be related, since on Gentoo the fonts are freshly compiled during installation? Thanks for any help here, even if it’s just for learning a bit about lilypond’s internals, since the above workaround fixed the problem which “drove” me to Ubuntu in the first place. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u...@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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\version "2.12.2"
myStaffSize = #15.87
#(set-global-staff-size myStaffSize)
\paper {
#(define fonts
(make-pango-font-tree "TeX Gyre Pagella"
"Sans"
"Mono"
(/ myStaffSize 20)))
}
\header {
title="Water Night"
subtitle="for S.A.T.B. Chorus, a capella"
dedication=\markup \column{ "dedicated in deepest friendship to Dr. Bruce Mayhall" }
composer="Eric Whitacre"
poet=\markup \column{ "Original Spanish text by Octavio Paz" "Translated by Muriel Rukeyser" }
}
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