Re: Where do the Century Font files come from?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2014-02-12 um 19:54 schrieb Urs Liska <address@hidden>:

> I don't find any sources, and trying to understand mf/GNUmakefile I get the 
> impression that they are somehow pulled from the latex installation that is 
> part of the LilyPond build dependencies.
> I'm asking because I'd like to have an estimate on the amount of work or 
> complexity needed to add font faces to Century, a condensed version in 
> particular.

A narrow variant would be great, but never underestimate the work for a good 
typeface!

If you’re serious, you should get in contact with the Polish font guys that are 
responsible for TeX Gyre (Schola etc.): 
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre

I don’t think the new font face is possible without some major funding - the 
current faces still lack Cyrillic (there once was, like in LilyPond’s variant, 
but it was removed AFAIK due to licensing and also quality issues).

> If Century came from metafont source it should be in theory be comparably 
> simple to add a narrower variant, isn't it?

AFAIK only the music fonts are from MF sources.

> But that's probably useless hope?

Just hope is useless ;-)

Greetlings, Hraban
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