Re: high-quality typesetting within lilypond

[Werner LEMBERG]

> There are fragments of prose which annotate all staves that we must
> accept responsibility for, but these are short, and dont usually
> involve display-font sizes.  Can we not depend on whatever kerning
> tables are provided with the users-specified font?

What you say is basically valid for Latin and Cyrillic fonts only.
Other scripts like Devanagari or Khmer need much more powerful
rendering engines.

>  Anything beyond that brings up the issue of GUI.

GUI?  LaTeX, for example, doesn't have a GUI.  Similar to lilypond,
you create plain text files with properly embedded commands.

> > If better is needed, perhaps the output-stream needs a comment
> > markup convention would support post-processing in a gui drawing
> > environment.

Well, a `drawing environment' can't replace proper layouting of
paragraphs and the like.

In the article below you can find links to Knuth's paragraph
formatting algorithm.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap



     Werner