Rune Zedeler escreveu: > I serched the archives without finding this question asked. > > We hopefully agree that having to trace the fonts is an ugly hack that > contradicts everything that lilypond stands for.
> > The natural question is: > Why use fonts instead of pdf templates? * philosophically: because the set of glyphs essentially a font * practically: fonts have - glyph subsetting, - hinting, - specialized libraries (eg Freetype) - naturally allow for glyphs which are in fact letters (msfzp 1-9) > Using templates would allow for the metapost-code to be used directly in > the pdfs. I think the proper solution is to convert all fonts to outlines, and use mf2pt1. This bypasses the tracing step. See the archives for more details. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
