Thanks for clarifying. What would you call the directory that says when to use ligatures? Am I on the right track? On Oct 6, 2014 9:48 PM, "Abraham Lee" <tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Josh, > > It's not the hints. Font hints are instructions for the computer to render > the glyphs more accurately at small sizes. Unfortunately, it's a different > issue. > > -Abraham > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Joshua Nichols <josh.d.nich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I apologize for not responding sooner. > > I went back over the bug report, and I'm more confused now than I was > before. Some seem to suggest that it may be a limitation with the > simplicity of pango, but I know that it is at least working on 32-bit > versions of linux. What needs to be tested then? > > I'm imagining that the program would need to test the ... (and correct me > lily-list if I'm wrong)... the pango font "hints?" I have no idea what I'm > saying. But, to my eyes and mind, it looks like the issue is that something > is glitching when the program calls the pango-something or another... > whatever... > > Help at all? *shrugs* > > IC, > > Josh > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Werner LEMBERG" <w...@gnu.org> >> To: <josh.d.nich...@gmail.com> >> Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> >> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 5:55 PM >> Subject: Re: Bounty for Fixing Ligature Bug? >> >> >> >> >>> I have read it. I know essentially what is happening, but I am not >>>> experienced at all with testing this sort of thing. It seems that >>>> the issue reported is stated pretty clearly, and that the questions >>>> are pretty much answered, >>>> >>> >>> This is not correct. The most important part, namely to write a small >>> test program for Pango that should be run on Windows and/or 64bit >>> GNU/Linux platforms, is *not* done. >>> >>> it's just a matter of IMPLEMENTING it. >>>> >>> >>> I guess that this is not too difficult as soon as we have a test >>> program... >>> >>> >>> Werner >>> >> >> >> I have a couple of development environments for Windows: a gcc-based one, >> which I've used for LilyPad development and a M$ C# one which I use more >> extensively. If you could point to what the test program would need to do, >> I could write, compile and test it. >> >> -- >> Phil Holmes >> > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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