On Jan 9, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi Werner, > > first of all, let me assure everyone that the last thing i want is a > heated argument. > I'll try to be brief: > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Hello Janek! >> >> [...] >> I'm a pianist, and I know Chopin very well and like him a lot, but I >> have *never* heard or played a song written by him. Regarding operas >> of Moniuszko, [...] It's a matter of fact that >> from an international point of view Poland is not relevant to opera, >> as Austria is not relevant to musical, for example. It doesn't >> diminish the value of Polish music! > > I formulated myself badly. I didn't want to say that polish music is > important in any particular area; let's drop these Moniuszko and > Chopin examples. > What i meant is: i would feel sorry if i couldn't use LilyPond's new, > unique, custom-designed professional font to engrave polish national > anthem or any other polish song because someone decided that polish > language is not important enough to be supported. > >>> Of course i'm sure that it wasn't your intention to offend me, >>> Werner, but nevertheless i feel quite disregarded. :-/ >> >> Please re-think your feelings. > > It's hard to re-think feelings...
I know what you mean. Polish is like Czech a bit tricky because it has shapes that needs special treatment and thought. The most obvious are the slashes and ogoneks (Ł ł ą Ą etc. ). The use of w and other diagonals is different and requires extra care as well. Including Polish should not be a problem. It should just be an explicit part of the brief if you do commission a font. > > Janek > <Mazurek Dąbrowskiego.pdf> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
