Shrinking brackets with Lilypond 1.6.8

[Chris Sawer]

When LilyPond 1.6.8 was released I finally got round to downloading and
upgrading all the necessary software to produce Type1 versions of the
LilyPond fonts so that 'ly2dvi -p' produced PDF files which look nicer in
Acrobat Reader.

Everything seemed to work well, but when compiled up the same file using the
old and new methods for comparison, I noticed that the bracket at the
beginning of each line seems to shrink when you use the Type 1 fonts!

It happens with several different .ly files I've tried, and it makes no
difference whether I use the Type1 fonts I've generated or the ones
downloaded from lilypond.org

The problem is illustrated in the attached PNG files: vector.png shows the
start of the music using Type1 fonts, and bitmap.png shows the same section
using the bitmapped fonts.

The PDF files are available at:

http://www.mutopiaproject.org/test/fur-elise-vt.pdf
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/test/fur-elise-bm.pdf

and the .ly file is available at:

http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BeethovenLv/WoO59/fur-elise/fur-elise.ly

The effect is also visible in the LilyPond user manual (at the top of page
27, for example) downloadable from lilypond.org, so it is not confined to my
system.

Thanks,

Chris

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Chris Sawer   -   address@hidden   -   Mutopia team leader
Free sheet music for all at Mutopia:  http://www.MutopiaProject.org

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