Re: high-quality typesetting within lilypond

2008-12-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Do you refer to engineering documents made with LaTeX, or to the > > engineering of LaTeX itself? > > The latter. Please explain. Werner ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-d

Re: high-quality typesetting within lilypond

2008-12-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Do you refer to engineering documents made with LaTeX, or to the >> > engineering of LaTeX itself? >> >> The latter. > > Please explain. TeX: 8 letter font names for dos compatibility. kpathsea. zillions of TeX spec

Re: Fwd: one big page refers to itself

2008-12-06 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/12/04 12:33 +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: > Also, lilypond-snippets does > not link to and from bigpage. Adding the same blurb and Texinfo code as in other manuals should work. > A little help on how are they generated would be appreciated. Look at input/lsr/lilypond-snippets.tely scm/d

Big page manuals, please update your texi2html CVS snapshot

2008-12-06 Thread John Mandereau
Hi, texi2html from current CVS no longer crashes on one of French big page manuals, so I pushed changes that make all big page manuals be generated in all languages. BTW I don't know how is texi2html supposed to be updated in GUB. GUB takes texi2html source from a Git repo on lilypond.org; is th

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-06 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/5/08 6:47 PM, "Danalute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >> >> > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >> >> >> Unfortunately, you don't give any concrete problems with the TabStaff of >> LilyPond. Can you elaborate a little bit on what is not acceptable and >> wha

Re: high-quality typesetting within lilypond

2008-12-06 Thread Danalute
Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Can we not depend on whatever kerning >> tables are provided with the users-specified font? > > What you say is basically valid for [simple writing systems] > Other scripts like Devanagari or Khmer need much more powerful > rendering engines. > Understood, I was

small caps

2008-12-06 Thread Danalute
Till wrote: > > I would like to have *REAL* small caps when the font has them > and not this faked stuff, it really hurts my eyes. (maybe pango indeed > can be configured to do so?) > Unicode provides encodings for SMALL CAPITALS, unfortunatly they are scattered and saddled with unfortunate

Re: Big page manuals, please update your texi2html CVS snapshot

2008-12-06 Thread Till Rettig
John Mandereau schrieb: Hi, texi2html from current CVS no longer crashes on one of French big page manuals, so I pushed changes that make all big page manuals be generated in all languages. Great, I just wanted to ask you to enable it also for the German AU, which is now fully translated. Ho

Re: small caps

2008-12-06 Thread Till Rettig
Danalute schrieb: Till wrote: I would like to have *REAL* small caps when the font has them and not this faked stuff, it really hurts my eyes. (maybe pango indeed can be configured to do so?) Unicode provides encodings for SMALL CAPITALS, unfortunatly they are scattered and saddled

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-06 Thread Danalute
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > I can't speak for the whole development team, but I suspect that nobody on > the team is going to run out and implement ... > I am willing to do my part; I think it is reasonable for me to hope to have your good advice and counsel. Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > I w

Re: small caps

2008-12-06 Thread Till Rettig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008, Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: (I guess you were just suggesting this in the second part of the message) I make fonts and understand understand the issue of line weight, 40% reduced majiscules differ from proper smallcaps. The

Re: major feature request (tablature)

2008-12-06 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 12/6/08 2:46 PM, "Danalute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> >> I can't speak for the whole development team, but I suspect that nobody on >> the team is going to run out and implement ... >> > > I am willing to do my part; I think it is reasonable for me to hope

Re: high-quality typesetting within lilypond

2008-12-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I agree, a text engine that deals with an arbitrary stream of > unicode is a massive effort which needs solution at the OS level so > as to serve all applications that care to use it. Not necessarily at the OS level, but having a solution just for lilypond instead of reusing existing resources