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Re: Lilypond font design
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: Lilypond font design |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:53:15 +0100 (CET) |
> > Whatever you do, *please* follow the guidelines in mf/README
> > (almost all ancient glyphs don't do that, unfortunately). An
> > `exact' conversion would be really cool!
> >
> Well, I don't really know yet anything about font design myself
> except maybe the point that ttf/otf fonts have a wide variance of
> substitution rules that are possible to intergrate.
This isn't of importance for fonts containing music glyphs.
> But does Lily care about them?
Not directly (this is, Pango takes care of ligatures and the like).
> Anyways, I will have a closer look at the README. Do you think I
> should generate mf fonts?
Yes, definitely. Starting with existing glyphs which then get
modified is not too complicated.
Werner