Re: otf and font-metrics?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > To get rid of TFM files (which contain exactly the data you need)
> > I suggest to add another SFNT table to the bigcheese OpenType font
> > which stores the missing depth and height values for the glyphs.
> 
> That's essentially what we have done. I was just wondering whether
> there is a better way to do that.

AFAIK, no.  It might be possible to (ab)use the `vmtx' table to store
the TeX height of the glyph, and to (ab)use a `VORG' table[1] to store
the depth, but since in the future we probably need more data anyway
-- zonal kerning, for example -- I think it's easiest to put
everything in an SFNT table specific to lilypond.


    Werner


[1] `VORG' exists only for CFF fonts.  See the OpenType specs for more
    details.