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Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog mf/feta-eindelijk.mf mf/fe...
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog mf/feta-eindelijk.mf mf/fe... |
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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