Re: Gets vertical skylines from grob stencils (issue 5626052)

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On Feb 26, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:50 AM, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>>> dynamic texts aren't skylined, their outlines are still rectangles.
>> 
>> The issue is that dynamics are created via Pango and thus I can only use 
>> rectangles
>> for the time being.  A separate issue in the tracker can be opened for 
>> redoing dynamics
>> so that they used a series of named-glyph stencils.
> 
> should we rather try to "break inside Pango"
> to be able to create precise outlines for everything that is processed
> by Pango?  The advantage of this approach would be that lyrics and
> markups would be skylined even better.
> 

I'd like to do this...I'm just not sure if it's possible.  Joe (or someone who 
knows fonts) - is there a way to get font outlines of pango fonts?

Cheers,
MS