David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 11:37:42 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: >> Hi Valentin, >> >> Thanks so much. Now to learn Metafont then. Shouldn't be too hard - I have >> been a programmer for more than forty years. [Despite that, I still cannot >> come to grips with the lilypond source, and all my lilypond questions all >> appear to be from a beginner. :-) ] >> >> The immediate task is to add various violin string mute symbols. But it >> sounds like this is going to be a useful skill to have. > > Don't miss the book at > http://www.ctex.org/documents/shredder/src/mfbook.pdf
The METAFONT book is copyrighted, and distribution of the PDF certainly is a violation of the copying permissions for its source code which has been made available for educational permissions with the following notice/code at the start: % This manual is copyright (C) 1986 by the American Mathematical Society. % All rights are reserved! % The file is distributed only for people to see its examples of TeX input, % not for use in the preparation of books like The METAFONTbook. % Permission for any other use of this file must be obtained in writing % from the copyright holder and also from the publisher (Addison-Wesley). \let\MFmanual=\! \loop\iftrue \errmessage{This manual is copyrighted and should not be TeXed}\repeat I don't think you are doing people a favor by pointing them to PDF files created in defiance of the license, discouraging the publisher from being similarly helpful in future. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user