Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > . The CFF part of bigcheese20.otf is extracted and put into a PS > > resource which is loaded with the -h option of dvips. If that > > doesn't work, lilypond-book simply emits > > \special{header=bigcheese.cff} at the beginning of the document. I was a bit unclear. Here a reformulatio

Patch for 5-string banjos

2005-01-05 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hello all, A problem arises when you try to write tab's for 5-string banjos: the fifth string starts at the 5th fret. This means that the "first fret" on the fifth string is really the sixth fret on the neck. To solve this I've made another tablatureFormat-function: fret-number-tablature-format-ba

Trivial documentation changes

2005-01-05 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hello, Here's some trivial documentation patches: doc-format-mark.patch: document the new mark-formatter functions format-mark-box-letters and format-mark-box-numbers. doc-trivial.patch: tchange comment from translator-property-description.scm to define-context-properties.scm at top of file. R

Patches for string tunings (tab)

2005-01-05 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hello Lilyponders I've had a look at tab's, and I've made some trivial changes to a couple of files. Here is a description of the patches (which are attached): tuning-triv.patch: (ly/engraver-init.ly and scm/output-lib.scm) change the variable name guitar-tunings to guitar-tuning (because it is _

new \context definition loses old context definitions

2005-01-05 Thread Graham Percival
Is this a bug, or an undocumented "feature"? Lily 2.4.2, OSX. I have a global.ly, which contains \layout{ \context { \Staff \override TimeSignature #'style = #'numbered } } In my actual piece, I use \include "../global.ly" \layout{ \context{ \RemoveEmptyStaffContext }} (which p

Yet another midi2ly

2005-01-05 Thread Antonio PALAMA'
Maybe I used the wrong address the first time. Sorry, A.P. Original Message Subject: Yet another midi2ly Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:38:49 +0100 From: Antonio PALAMA' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Auth

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-05 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 23:29 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Owen, can you answer this, please? Since there are two mechanisms > > > for kerning (the `kern' table and the `kern' feature in the GPOS > > > table) I wonder how Pango is handling this. > > > > I won't say that I actually have plans

Re: [tex-live] Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-05 Thread Vladimir Volovich
"GW" == George Williams writes: >> Then they have to be there in the CFF separately. The H/D can be >> different from the outlines, eg. due to overshoot. GW> What do you mean by overshoot? GW> Remember tfm metrics are not perfect. There are only 16 possible GW> values for depth or height, an

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-05 Thread George Williams
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:40, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Then they have to be there in the CFF separately. The H/D can be > different from the outlines, eg. due to overshoot. What do you mean by overshoot? Remember tfm metrics are not perfect. There are only 16 possible values for depth or height,

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-05 Thread George Williams
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:11, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Hmm. I'd say it should contain all info from the TFM > > * metrics (these are entirely unrelated to the extents of the > outlines) The advance widths have their natural place. Height/Depth information: Per glyph Bounding box informat

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Remember tfm metrics are not perfect. There are only 16 possible > values for depth or height, and one of these is required to be 0. > So in a font with many different glyph sizes the tfm file has > already done some kind of grouping operation which can lose a lot of > information. Whatever th

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Owen, can you answer this, please? Since there are two mechanisms > > for kerning (the `kern' table and the `kern' feature in the GPOS > > table) I wonder how Pango is handling this. > > I won't say that I actually have plans for handling AFM files. I > basically know how it would work: [...]

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-05 Thread Rogier van Dalen
On 04 Jan 2005 08:04:23 -0800, George Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe these things ought to be discussed on the OpenType mailing list too? > I brought up ITLC on the OpenType list some time ago, hoping to get it > added to the standard feature list. I was unable to do so. Perhaps if >