Re: MacOS X standalone lilypond app revisited

2005-06-05 Thread Ed Baskerville
I'm late to this thread (as usual)... (I'm in the middle of a little piano trio tour around New England, so writing code is getting pushed to the side.) I guess I should have mentioned earlier that I've been continuing some work in this vein. Since it sounds like this OS X-native stuff is

Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Matthias Neeracher wrote: On Jun 5, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Matthias Neeracher wrote: AFAIK, a .dfont is an archive of several TTFs, and should be possible to extract the right TTF font from the .dfont directly. Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana,

Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Jun 5, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:Matthias Neeracher wrote: AFAIK, a .dfont is an archive of several TTFs, and should be possible to extract the right TTF font from the .dfont directly. Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana, for instance, is a tradtional MacOS

Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Matthias Neeracher wrote: Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana, for instance, is a tradtional MacOS font, as far as I can tell. Also, I think that some font files may have the pfa font already embedded, so going through the ttf version may entail a loss of quality. Gotit

Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Matthias Neeracher wrote: AFAIK, a .dfont is an archive of several TTFs, and should be possible to extract the right TTF font from the .dfont directly. Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana, for instance, is a tradtional MacOS font, as far as I can tell. Also, I think th

Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:Matthias Neeracher wrote: Yes,  I guess that's best. I'd be grateful if you could find out  how we can properly embed a dfont file. I know that there are  utilities for extracting TTFs from dfonts. I think I found a solution that is reasonably gene

Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Matthias Neeracher wrote: Yes, I guess that's best. I'd be grateful if you could find out how we can properly embed a dfont file. I know that there are utilities for extracting TTFs from dfonts. I think I found a solution that is reasonably general: Why not pass all unknown font files to

fret diagram modifications

2005-06-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
I have completed the fret diagram modifications to eliminate white-dot and white-text, and to ensure that fret-diagrams work with 2.5.27. I've also added a file /input/regression/fret-diagrams.ly that excercises every option for the fret-diagrams code. I've tried to commit to CVS, but it's been w

Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

2005-06-05 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Jun 3, 2005, at 2:08 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Matthias Neeracher wrote: It seems the changes in font.scm were harmful to MacOS X. On processing, I get: warning: don't know how to embed "Verdana"="/Library/Fonts/Verdana" and in the resulting PDF file, the chord names look weird (I b

Re: MacOS X standalone lilypond app revisited

2005-06-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Nicolas Sceaux wrote: One of the other nice things of python is that we'd be able to run the support scripts (both the wrapper for the standalone binary and convert-ly) inside LilyPond.app. A little technical question: do you write the Python code inside XCode, or in another IDE, eg emacs? (I'

Re: MacOS X standalone lilypond app revisited

2005-06-05 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - For reasons of maintainability, I prefer python over Objective > C. Python's dynamic nature makes it a very natural match with > Objective C. > > Given cocoa's nice MVC structure, I expect that it would be easy to > replace the ObjC code with Pyth

Re: Lilypond 2.5 for windows - command window and PS files

2005-06-05 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Paul Hamelinck writes: > Congratulations with your new MS windows release! I installed it today; > I am impressed, that you got the point and click to work in Acrobat! Thanks. I'm glad it works. > However, I think I've got a small problem: Each time I open > lilypond, it comes up with this welc