On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider
<pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Since Abraham has done a wonderful job with his new fonts, I wanted
to come back to some font works i started years ago without success
(I'm a total newbee with FontForge).
And still, I'm stucked with two issues which are probably caused by
some bad settings/options.
Even when simply copying Emmentaler-20.otf, compiling does not work
well :
1. LP warning message : "SFNT font table missing for LilyPond"
2. stems stays on the oposit side of noteheads (see enclosed pic)
One thing that I don't understand also is that emmentaler-20.otf is
about 165 ko and a FontForge copy of it is only 71 ko.
Any help would be great !
Cheers,
Pierre
Pierre,
You've discovered the difficult truth about the way music fonts are
constructed for use in LilyPond. It's more than just putting the glyphs
in the right places. There's a lot of correlated data that is used to
place and space things correctly. This data is embedded in the font
files.
You probably noticed that FontForge told you it was ignoring certain
subtables when you opened the Emmentaler one. It took me quite a while
to understand how to everything works, but I can make your font work if
you want to send me the fontforge files.
With everything I've done, it's not the mechanism inside LilyPond that
changed. I simply cracked the code to make fonts work with it and until
that mechanism changes, this is how we'll have to do things.
Regards,
Abraham
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