Re: There no ligatures in Kievan notation

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I am not sure what is the latest state of incorporating new glyphs
> into lily; so far, we used to have to design glyphs by manually
> writing Metafont code, which may result in high-quality glyphs, but
> is also an extremely time-consuming process.  But nowadays, lily
> supports a couple of font formats.  Maybe there is a simpler way of
> getting font characters into lily, e.g. by scanning + tracing them?

I second Han-Wen: Metafont should be used for that.  However, it
doesn't prevent that you use a tracing program to get some coordinates
which can be then imported to Metafont for a first draft.  On the
other hand, it is probably faster to design a shape from scratch,
based on high-resolution images, than fiddling around with meaningless
coordinates which just describe the outline and give no help in
adjusting the shape for various sizes.


    Werner