Re: goal of current programming

2004-04-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > A good thing would be to allow 32bit input character codes. I mean *internally*, in case I was unclear. > I don't see so much problems on the input side. ATM, you switch > encodings on the fly with > > \encoding "latin1" > > (only affects \markup though) which means that latin1 is used to >

Re: goal of current programming

2004-04-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > relying on the TeX backend. That implies minimal font encoding > > handling. > > Be careful to made a distinction between font and input encoding! Use Now that we've dived into this matter, we understand the distinction. > > We have not yet found the trick to let

Re: goal of current programming

2004-04-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If we want to replace [La]TeX titling kludges (in lilypond.py), we > must at the very least offer something that is capable of printing > our own examples (Les N'er'eides, S"angers Morgenlied) without > relying on the TeX backend. That implies minimal font encoding > handling. Be careful to ma

Re: goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Werner LEMBERG writes: > I see a lot of changes related to fonts, font encoding, input > encoding, etc., in the CVS. What is the near-time goal of your > changes? The long-time goal (somewhere this Easter :-) is to have LilyPond do proper page layout. For page layout, it is necessary for LilyPo

goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > \override Lyrics #'X-extent-callback = #(lambda (grob) > > (lookup-latex-dimension the-dimension-table (ly:get-property grob 'text))) > > I don't fully understand what I shall do. Can you give a real > example, please? Assume that the words `foo', `bar', and

goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Han-Wen, Janneke, > > > I see a lot of changes related to fonts, font encoding, input > encoding, etc., in the CVS. What is the near-time goal of your > changes? Getting proper support for latin and latin-like languages. We don't know how to handle unicode/Japanes

goal of current programming

2004-04-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Han-Wen, Janneke, I see a lot of changes related to fonts, font encoding, input encoding, etc., in the CVS. What is the near-time goal of your changes? Reason for asking is support for Japanese -- I've written some Haiku, and I would like to use lilypond for typesetting them. There is still t