Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread John Mandereau
David Kastrup a écrit : Ok, so the bad news: canorus was not in the package repository. So reinstallation is not trivial: I have to dig it up and then install it. And then it is likely that the version I'll be able to find will be quite different from what I had installed previously (and which w

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > David Kastrup a écrit : >> Ok, so the bad news: canorus was not in the package repository. So >> reinstallation is not trivial: I have to dig it up and then install it. >> And then it is likely that the version I'll be able to find will be >> quite different from what I

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > John Mandereau writes: > >> David Kastrup a écrit : >>> Ok, so the bad news: canorus was not in the package repository. So >>> reinstallation is not trivial: I have to dig it up and then install it. >>> And then it is likely that the version I'll be able to find will be

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > If one uses the --sort option, one gets dozens of fonts. The Type1 font > is at the second place and increasingly dissimilar fallbacks follow. > The fontformat= entry does not seem to change anything any which way. > Using foundry=urw in contrast helps. But that probably

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If one uses the --sort option, one gets dozens of fonts. The Type1 > font is at the second place and increasingly dissimilar fallbacks > follow. The fontformat= entry does not seem to change anything any > which way. Using foundry=urw in contrast helps. But that probably > is asking more tha

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> If one uses the --sort option, one gets dozens of fonts. The Type1 >> font is at the second place and increasingly dissimilar fallbacks >> follow. The fontformat= entry does not seem to change anything any >> which way. Using foundry=urw in contrast helps. But that p

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread John Mandereau
2009/3/18 David Kastrup : > Werner LEMBERG writes: >> I don't think so.  AFAIK, we want *exactly* the URW versions, so this >> looks like a good alternative. > > When I wrote the above, my rationale was that the URW fonts are Century > Schoolbook font clones with identical font metrics.  If someon

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I don't think so. AFAIK, we want *exactly* the URW versions, so >> this looks like a good alternative. > > Do we really want to use these particular clones in case there are > supposedly metrically identical fonts installed in a preferred > setting? IMHO yes. Those fonts are intended as fall

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau writes: > It looks like a good idea to append foundry=urw in fc-match call in configure, > but this fix will break when the foundry field of TTFs shipped with Canorus > changes from "unknown" to "urw" -- or maybe this won't happen because TTF > files will never provide "urw" as fou

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Maybe another solution is requiring other fonts, IIRC Werner > proposed TexGyre Schola a while ago. If we do the switch (which I still want to do but my usual lack of time prevents this), we enforce exactly the new font as the default, so the solution should be the same. > It looks like a good

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> Maybe another solution is requiring other fonts, IIRC Werner >> proposed TexGyre Schola a while ago. > > If we do the switch (which I still want to do but my usual lack of > time prevents this), we enforce exactly the new font as the default, > so the solution should be

good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
Hi all, I've been offered a scholarship to do my PhD at the University of Glasgow, which I'm of course eagerly accepting. I'll be starting in Sep or Oct. To tie this in with lilypond, there's good news on two fronts: 1) My supervisor-to-be is a big supporter of open source; I'm sure that he won

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure why we have both \cr and \<. If the two really are equivalent, >>> one ought to be deprecated before it is ultimately removed. >> >> I have a vague notion that \cr *was* deprecated. >>

Re: (de)cresendi syntax

2009-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > Le 16 mars 2009 16:31, Graham Percival a écrit : > > I don't think anybody else has replied, so I'll take a stab at it. > > I've been working at a draft reply for a few days, but never found > what I was looking for. And clear

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Josh Parmenter
On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Graham Percival wrote: If I don't produce any copyrightable source code, then its ownership can't be in question, right?) Why isn't the code copyrightable? It IS copyrightable, but the open-source license lays out under what terms others can use it. Josh

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 07:57:35AM -0700, Josh Parmenter wrote: > On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > >> If I don't produce any copyrightable source code, then its >> ownership can't be in question, right?) > Why isn't the code copyrightable? Because I don't write it in the fir

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/3/18 Graham Percival : > I've been offered a scholarship to do my PhD at the University of > Glasgow, which I'm of course eagerly accepting.  I'll be starting > in Sep or Oct. Oh dear, I take it you didn't fall for Singapore :) > To tie this in with lilypond, there's good news on two fronts

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Sorry, I don't understand the problem. Why will this lilypond fix >> break something in Canorus or vice versa? > > Canorus installs Truetype versions of some of those fonts, > system-wide. The Lilypond configure command finds some of those > truetype fonts via fc-match in preference of the us

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Josh Parmenter
if your advisor understands what you are contributing and is comfortable with it, you probably don't need to worry about it. It can always be said that your contributions are done on your own time, etc. The only way you may need to be concerned with anything is if LilyPond suddenly becomes

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:24:30PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2009/3/18 Graham Percival : > > > I've been offered a scholarship to do my PhD at the University of > > Glasgow, which I'm of course eagerly accepting.  I'll be starting > > in Sep or Oct. > > Oh dear, I take it you didn't fall

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Josh Parmenter wrote: > if your advisor understands what you are contributing and is comfortable > with it, you probably don't need to worry about it. Boss, not advisor. I'm a staff member -- a very low-ranking one at that -- not a student. This also ha

Re: [PATCH] Re: Why is it _still_ so freaking hard to get info with images?

2009-03-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> Canorus installs Truetype versions of some of those fonts, >> system-wide.  The Lilypond configure command finds some of those >> truetype fonts via fc-match in preference of the usual Type1 >> versions coming with GhostScript.  This cause

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Graham Percival wrote: >> but, what is important to >> know is that everything you do is copyrightable by you. > > ... unless I sign a contract which states that **any intellectual > property I create**[1] is owned by the university.  Which I did, > after a great

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Graham Percival > > wrote: > >> but, what is important to > >> know is that everything you do is copyrightable by you. > > > > ... unless I sign a contract which

Re: good news for my PhD

2009-03-18 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/3/18 Graham Percival : > But in this case of me not produce any source code at all?  I > think it's pretty obvious that the resulting source code isn't > copyrightable.  Of course, given the way that logical implication > works, the resulting source code *is* copyrightable.  And the > resultin