Re: Problems with tablature angle brackets

2009-12-31 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> Would it be a good idea to *draw* these angle brackets instead of >> using glyphs from a font? > > Yes.  The angle brackets in TeX Gyre Schola (which will eventually > become part of the LilyPond distribution and replace the New Century >

Re: Problems with tablature angle brackets

2009-12-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Would it be a good idea to *draw* these angle brackets instead of > using glyphs from a font? Yes. The angle brackets in TeX Gyre Schola (which will eventually become part of the LilyPond distribution and replace the New Century Schoolbook fonts) are not too nice IMHO. Werner _

Re: Problems with tablature angle brackets

2009-12-31 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Would it be a good idea to *draw* these angle brackets instead of >> using glyphs from a font?  I'm thinking that there would be fewer >> problems that way. > > Or maybe we could add a set of angle brackets to the Emmentaler > font, and use those instead? I can imagine that we want to have angl

Re: Problems with tablature angle brackets

2009-12-30 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > Would it be a good idea to *draw* these angle brackets instead of > using glyphs from a font?  I'm thinking that there would be fewer > problems that way. Or maybe we could add a set of angle brackets to the Emmentaler font, and use thos

Problems with tablature angle brackets

2009-12-30 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hello, Recently James reported a problem compiling the tablature regression tests containing angle brackets (entered with \harmonic). See the thread here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-12/msg00511.html The problem is that relatively few fonts contain the Unicode charact