Re: External fonts on MacOS

[Christian Ebert]

* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, November 05, 2005 at 00:32:11 +0100:
> Christian Ebert wrote:
>> On a more serious side: the kerning w/o LaTeX font metrics is a
>> catastrophy. As I wrote in another post I'd be much more
>> interested to get the TeX-backend working with lilypond-book
>> (because I mainly set texts and not much notes) and to be able to
>> compile it myself (w/o another ghostscript installation etc.)
>> 
>> I still think giving up the TeX-backend (quality) in favor of
>> seemingly easier use is the wrong direction to take. Because what
>> I like(d) about lilypond is that it aimed at quality as first
>> priority and no foul compromises.
> 
> I think this is a flawed analysis.

It sure is, especially as it wasn't meant as an analysis. It was
meant as an observation and an interpretation by me as a user.

Compared to earlier versions I had more difficulties to get
lilypond going and I get text output of less good quality. So I
described my fear that lilypond might lose the qualities I chose
it for. I am sure you had valid reasons to go the direction you
went, but from my subjective point of view it means at least a
momentary loss.

> TeX might be good at some things, 
> from a technical point of view it's complete nightmare.

I love nightmares ;-)

> The design with 
> Pango is much more versatile, and while it's not perfect yet, it will be 
> if only for the shere mass of Pango. It powers much of GTK, and with a 
> wide audience comes a wide array of hackers.
> 
> If you want to use TeX, be my guest; there still is a TeX backend,
> 
>   lilypond -b tex  foo.ly

I hope to get it working with lilypond-book too, because that's
what I mainly need.
 
> which uses TeX to get exact metrics. It might have bitrotted a bit, but 
> if you're keen on using it, I trust that you will produce nice patches.

As I am not a programmer I know to /apply/ patches a little bit.
But I'll try if I can find the time.

> You will have to compile Lily by yourself, though.

I will keep trying because I want to keep profiting from you
phantastic work.

c
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