Hi Werner (not sure whether this should be moved to lilypond-hackers, but here goes.. )
I had a look at using Pango for typesetting text. See the attached
program. I am wondering: are the number codes (printed as c XXX)
really unicode codes? When I convert
\'all
as utf-8, I get
c 67 w 14336 x 0 y 0
c 177 w 6144 x 0 y 0
c 177 w 6144 x 0 y 0
c 0 w 0 x 0 y 0
that's not latin1, is it? In any event, I will need a table of unicode
-> glyphname mappings. I recall that there was a table available
somewhere.
Here are my further notes to the problem
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Target:
* use pango, freetype and fontconfig for managing fonts and font
metrics.
benefit:
- internationalized lyrics in PS
- easy font install
- support for TTF fonts etc.
* use OpenType for the LilyPond font.
Benefit:
- one font: easier install
- contains PUA map, no hacks for -f gnome.
- contains special dimension tables (staff-space, line thick, etc.)
- contains char metrics
Questions:
* PangoGlyph (uint32) <-> glyphname conversion. Is this Unicode?
* Including PUA map for lilypond font.
* PangoGlyphUnit <-> Real World dimension conversion.
* How to integrate fontconfig into lilypond font-selection?
* How to integrate PangoFont into LilyPond Font_metric smob?
* How to handle dichotomy with TeX fonts and OTFs?
* How to handle: use fonts from build tree during compilation, and run
from source dir.
* How to encode/decode table of special dimensions for the OT font.
* autoconf glue for freetype/fontconfig/pango
* Do we need any settings for language/shaper?
Next step:
Find a uint32 -> glyphname, dump glyphnames on PS in test program.
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-- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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