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Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog mf/feta-eindelijk.mf mf/fe...


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog mf/feta-eindelijk.mf mf/fe...
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:06:21 +0100

address@hidden writes:
> > >   Prepare glyph shapes for mf2pt1 conversion.
> > 
> > Why are you doing this? I have the impression that without filldraw,
> > the MF code becomes (slightly) more complex.  Am I missing
> > something?
> 
> Sorry for not announcing -- I thought that the advantages are obvious:
> Exact generation of the music glyphs, no need for mftrace.
> Additionally, the conversion will be around 10times faster.  We still
> need fontforge for removing overlaps[1] and adding hints, though.

Ok - you would do me favor if you could first write the glue for
texstrings. We're in a rather painful transition from our
font-subsystem to using pango right now, and things would be easier if
we could just dump our old infrastructure, by integrating TeX-metrics.

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





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