Re: LilyPond 2.3.0 released

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> > The Debian maintainer disagrees, he claims lmodern is (usually
> > considered to be) better:
> 
> This is correct, basically.  But lmodern is `more' work in progress
> than cm-super -- it doesn't contain Cyrillic glyphs yet.  Besides
> this, the quality and hinting is *excellent*.
> 
> >      The Latin Modern fonts were generated using MetaType1, a
> >      program based on MetaPost for generating PostScript Type 1
> >      fonts (ftp://bop.eps.gda.pl/pub/metatype1/). Their size is
> >      reasonable and they are usually considered to be of good
> >      quality (compared to cm-super, for instance).
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > However, Han-Wen asserts that CM-like font generation using (modified)
> > metapost is 1. next to impossible,
> 
> Han-Wen is wrong :-)
> 
> > 2. higly improbable and
> 
> It is a semi-automated process. 

Perhaps, but then the word "*generated* using
MetaType1" is not entirely accurate.


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