Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question


> > I'm playing with metafont to redesign the mensural c clef and see
> > that most of the clefs are drawn by creating a pattern of the
> > desired shape and then filling it.  An alternative would be to
> > select a pen and draw the shape by connecting the vertices.
>
> Please call
>
>  FONTFORGE=foo mf2pt1 --rounding=0.0001 <lilypond-font.mf>

To try to get this working at all, I've copied the font file, mftpt1 and 
mf2pt1.mem to the same directory - it's the only way it would run at all on 
my system.  Running using parmesan-clefs.mf as the target results in an 
enormous error log starting:

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> > fet_begingroup
! Isolated expression.
<to be read again>
                  (
l.20 fet_begingroup (
                    "clefs");
I couldn't find an `=' or `:=' after the
expression that is shown above this error message,
so I guess I'll just ignore it and carry on.

! Extra tokens will be flushed.
<to be read again>
                  (
l.20 fet_begingroup (
                    "clefs");
I've just read as much of that statement as I could fathom,
so a semicolon should have been next. It's very puzzling...
but I'll try to get myself back together, by ignoring
everything up to the next `;'. Please insert a semicolon
now in front of anything that you don't want me to delete.
(See Chapter 27 of The METAFONTbook for an example.)
=============================================

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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Phil Holmes