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Re: tex strings output


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: tex strings output
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:30:09 +0100

address@hidden writes:
> 
> > I've put the first component of TeX generated text metrics in place
> > [...]
> 
> Great!
> 
> > as you can see, I used a lispish format for now.
> 
> This is fine.
> 
> > If you can define a standard format for TeX input, write macros for
> > dimension handling, and provide a TeX output like
> >
> >   (FONT-NAME MAGNIFICATION TEXT BBOX-LIST)
> >
> > then I can start to work on importing the metrics back into
> > LilyPond.
> 
> Will do that, probably not immediately but in one or two weeks.
> 
> BTW, what about this:
> 
>   in:
>     (ID FONT-NAME MAGNIFICATION TEXT)
> 
>   out:
>     (ID FONT-NAME MAGNIFICATION BBOX-LIST)
> 
> Not a great difference (and it really doesn't matter), but the out
> file becomes smaller...

I think that's a non-issue. I prefer to leave the original TEXT in the
output. That makes things all the easier, because LilyPond doesn't
have to read the .texstr file, just the .texdimen (inventing a name
here ... )


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