Re: Lilipond/nikud bug: Pango-bug ? [paps OK]

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2008/2/14, Yotam Medini יותם מדיני <address@hidden>:
> It is related to the bug reported in
>    http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=541
> Since you are the author of Lilypond's  pango-font.cc,
> I wonder if you could comment on the suggestions of Behdad Esfahbod below.


>http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=lily/pango-font.cc;hb=HEAD


> > Looks correct.  I'm not sure what other backends Lilypond has, but I
> > highly recommend porting the entire thing to pango+cairo.  You shouldn't
> > have to deal with postscript names at all...

Hi,

IIRC when this was written, cairo was not really up to the task of
generating print output (and not pulling in all of the X11 related
deps).  I'm not up for the task of ripping out the current backend and
replacing it with cairo, but I'm certainly willing to look into
patches for this.

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