Re: Issue 838 in lilypond: Inconsistency in tests output size

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:17 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not quite sure of the best solution. Maybe some of the interface of the
> Font_metric object could be changed, passing  an Output_def object into
> text_stencil() so it can store any physical fonts loaded for this file.

I have to think a bit more about this, but probably the whole font
metric api could use some overhaul.  It dates from the time that we
used TeX, and all fonts had to be loaded explicitly by lilypond, while
nowadays some fonts are loaded through Fontconfig/pango.

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