Werner,
Thank you for your thoughts. I certainly can't throw out the
possibility that it is the LILY, LILC, and LILF tables. I might not
have configured them correctly.
Here's a couple of screenshots of what I mean by the internal corners
needing to be rounded. Thanks for your help! If you can help me know
how to add these rounds programmatically with metafont, I'll be a VERY
happy camper :)
Regards,
Abraham
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Werner LEMBERG [via Lilypond]
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>
> > [1] [...] for some reason default to some other font for the
> numbers
> > and letters and don't use those in my font at all: [...]
> >
> > [2] [...] the [trill] glyph doesn't connect for a continuous look:
> > [...]
>
> My guess for both problems is that due to your font modifications the
> `LILY', `LILC', and `LILF' OpenType tables are screwed up, no longer
> in sync with the actual data. However, this is just a guess.
>
> I fully agree with Urs that you should really work on the Metafont
> level. It's not rocket science! Following the mf/README file in
> calling mf2pt1 should give you some ideas how the font looks like
> before it gets processed with FontForge. Additionally, you can
> always
> be sure that the three additional OpenType tables are OK.
>
> > [...]. Exterior corners can be made sharp--/no problem!/--because I
> > am not limited in size by the tool I'm using to create it. On the
> > other hand, the interior corners are /*NEVER EVER EVER* going to be
> > sharp/ because I simply do not have a strong enough tool with a
> > sharp enough edge to cut a perfectly sharp interior corner. Even
> > nowadays with our advanced manufacturing processes, this is a
> > difficult and very expensive challenge.
>
> Please provide (largely magnified) images that show exactly what you
> mean.
>
> > What this means: in order to have a truly authentic, classically
> > engraved look, ALL interior corners should be rounded-ish, and the
> > rounded-ness should remain optically constant (i.e., for
> > emmentaler-26, the internal rounds would be optically the same size
> > as those for emmentaler-11, but in the font itself, the rounds
> would
> > be /MUCH LARGER/ for emmentaler-11 than emmentaler-26 because the
> > intended print size is /MUCH SMALLER/).
>
> This is not difficult to achieve. If you are going to modify one
> glyph at one size (ignoring the size issues for the beginning), thus
> providing a template to work with, we will be certainly able to help
> you with the missing details.
>
>
> Werner
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