RE: FYI: encoding issues

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> [...]
>  >  * good support for non-western lyrics,
>  >
>  >  * usable PostScript output
>  >
>  >  * better support for TeX's text formatting features.
>  >
>  >  * A cleaner system for reading and processing fonts.
> 
> Please don't answer the following questions if you feel they're 
> inappropriate. I'm just being curious...
> 
> Since a few months ago, I was under the impression that the Lilypond TeX 
> backend would be gradually moved to maintenance mode, in favor of the 
> PostScript backend. Is that correct?

Yup.

> If not, what is the motivation for continuing to invest time into both 
> TeX and PostScript backends?

Practically: TeX has more formatting capabilities.  Personally, I want
to minimize the amount of time I sink into TeX, but Werner thinks it
is a valuable feature, and he has been (hopefully: will be) willing to
keep that back-end up to date.

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen