Re: FYI pango/font status

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:

>> We need a new command to select the backend -- I propose \TeXformat
>> and \PSformat so that the `-f ps' and `-f tex' switches become
>> obsolete.
>
> And SVG/Gnome/whatever-we-come-up-with-next? I disagree with this
> idea.

In fact, I would like to remove as much non-musical stuff from .ly as
posible.  As a simple example, the decision of whether or not to
produce MIDI should be made from the command line only.

> I did some more research. It's possible to add a "designsize" property
> to FcFontPattern. In fact, any property may be added, since properties
> are generic. The distressing thing is that Pango does not expose it's
> fontconfig interface to the world, so it's unclear whether we can
> instruct Pango to use the designsize.

Maybe we should just (make a short annoucement that Lily now has GNOME
output and uses PANGO to render fontsn and) ask on desktop-devel-list
or gtk-i18n-list.

Jan.

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