> There are fragments of prose which annotate all staves that we must > accept responsibility for, but these are short, and dont usually > involve display-font sizes. Can we not depend on whatever kerning > tables are provided with the users-specified font?
What you say is basically valid for Latin and Cyrillic fonts only. Other scripts like Devanagari or Khmer need much more powerful rendering engines. > Anything beyond that brings up the issue of GUI. GUI? LaTeX, for example, doesn't have a GUI. Similar to lilypond, you create plain text files with properly embedded commands. > > If better is needed, perhaps the output-stream needs a comment > > markup convention would support post-processing in a gui drawing > > environment. Well, a `drawing environment' can't replace proper layouting of paragraphs and the like. In the article below you can find links to Knuth's paragraph formatting algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
