Re: Using lookup to extract glyphs

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:

> Valentin Villenave wrote Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:41 AM
>
>
> > 2008/11/27 Neil Puttock <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > How about \left-brace and (rotated) \right-brace?  This would make it
> > > much simpler to embed them within text that has font-name overrides.
> >
> > Great idea!
>
> I agree.
>
> > ... either two commands with the size as an argument,
> >
> > \left-brace #20
> > \right-brace #40
>
> This is my preference.  The functions would need to check
> the size for validity, though, as no error message is
> produced if an invalid sized brace is used.  LilyPond
> just ignores it silently.

Better to let the function round off the size to the closest one that's
available.

> If this is implemented there seems to be no further use
> for \lookup and overriding font-encoding, AFAICS.  These
> are briefly described in NR 1.8.3 under Fonts explained,
> which seems adequate if these brace functions are to be
> available and documented.

I was just about to say that you need to set the font-encoding also to 
get access to the standard text font, until I realized that I had
implemented the \normal-text markup for that purpose, some years ago.

   /Mats