Re: LilyPond 2.3.0 released

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> This release marks the end of an era for me. For the past years I've
> hacked on LilyPond during my (PhD)study and unemployment. Tomorrow, I
> will start a regular job as logistics consultant, which means that
> from now on I won't be able to fix LilyPond bugs within the hour.

Congratulations on the job.

> New features in 2.3 since 2.2
> *****************************
...
>    * The `font-encoding' property can now be used to select
>      differently encoded fonts. The previous default setting
>      `TeX-text' has been replaced by latin1. LilyPond requires the
>      ec-fonts-mftraced package
>      (http://www.lilypond.org/download/fonts/) installed to function
>      properly.

Why reinvent the wheel? There are already several sets of
Type1 font files for the EC fonts available at CTAN. In particular,
I recommend the cm-super fonts, <CTAN>/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/.

   /Mats