On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Unicode only provides a way of specifying character codes for a wide > > variety of symbols in the interior of a text file. But without font files > > containing the order of 64K symbols, the current fragmented font-file > > situation will continue to limit what can easily be output to a screen > > or a printer. It is difficult for me to share your optimism.
> That's not a problem, at least, not on Linux. Pango does a wonderful job > of inspecting the coverage of each font. It substitutes whichever font > has the glyphs that are required to print the text. Well, that's impressive. For Windows users -- suppose that the right environment variable has been set to signal to LilyPond the presence of various Windows font directories. Then is Pango actually able to do that sort of font substitution if the specified font name in a .LY file is that of a TTF font located in a Windows directory? -- Tom _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
