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Re: lilypond does *not* need metafont
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Reinhold Kainhofer |
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Re: lilypond does *not* need metafont |
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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:35:14 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 schrieb Patrick McCarty:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:58:19AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > lilypond needs metapost, not metafont, for building the fonts! The
> > binary is normally called `mpost' or `mp'.
>
> Hi Werner,
>
> Are you sure about this? Looking at one of my `make all' logs, the
> following two lines appear, once for each .mf file (of course with
> feta13.mf, etc.):
>
> MFINPUTS=. mf-nowin -progname=mf "\mode:=ljfour; nonstopmode; input
> feta11.mf;" This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>
> This all happens before any occurrence of `mpost'.
Also, we check for the mf-nowin, mf, mfw or mfont binaries in the configure
step and exist if it doesn't exists, so it is indeed a build-time dependency
of lilypond.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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Re: lilypond does *not* need metafont,
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