Re: NR 1.7.1: can't understand a sentence about scaling font size

2013-10-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> With the modern scalable fonts much of this size-adjusting has been > incorporated in hints and other techniques, I wished it were so, but alas, this is not true. Hinting is only useful to adapt glyphs to a given output device. It does *not* provide any optical scaling. Werner

Re: NR 1.7.1: can't understand a sentence about scaling font size

2013-10-10 Thread Johan Vromans
Federico Bruni writes: > In NR 1.7.1, Selecting notation font size, I have: > Font size changes are achieved by scaling the design size that is closest > to the desired size. > > What is design here? Originally, LilyPond used the TeX typesetting system to produce the music. TeX fonts were design

Re: NR 1.7.1: can't understand a sentence about scaling font size

2013-10-10 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/10/11 Mike Solomon > > On Oct 11, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > > In NR 1.7.1, Selecting notation font size, I have: > Font size changes are achieved by scaling the design size that is closest > to the desired size. > > What is design here? > All the pararagraph is well explaine

Re: NR 1.7.1: can't understand a sentence about scaling font size

2013-10-10 Thread Mike Solomon
On Oct 11, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > In NR 1.7.1, Selecting notation font size, I have: > Font size changes are achieved by scaling the design size that is closest to > the desired size. > > What is design here? > All the pararagraph is well explained, except for this sentence.