On 2015/03/31 22:18:11, c_sorensen wrote:
On 2015/03/31 15:57:54, dak wrote: > Shouldn't we rather be selecting the Courier and Helvetica fonts
(standard
> PostScript) and rely on GhostScript and/or font installation to
cater for the
> font substitution to Nimbus when required? > > That's not a rhetorical question: I don't know the answer myself.
IIUC, the problem that we had was that the font installations for some
systems
did not include ligatures, so we proposed to make a selection, rather
than
allowing the system default to apply.
The PostScript default fonts have well-defined metrics including ligatures. That's different from a non-specific "system default font" according to Pango. At least it _should_ be different. I was not talking about asking Pango for "Sans" or "Fixed", but for "Helvetica" and "Courier". PostScript is required to do something with that request that at least results in well-known font metrics. I don't know whether Pango is similarly well-defined for that request, however. https://codereview.appspot.com/224800043/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
