Re: Fastest way to rebuild Feta

[Janek Warchoł]

2014-02-04 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> I actually did my first modifications to Feta (not intended for a general
> contribution but rather for a personal project).
>
> If I use Janek's script to rebuild LilyPond it takes a mere 5-10 seconds to
> finish, which is quite good.
> But is there a more straightforward (and faster) way to compile the font or
> even a given glyph individually to judge the results of the metafont
> modification? As long as I'm going through it by trial&error, even 5-10
> seconds sum up considerably ...

https://github.com/janek-warchol/cli-tools/blob/master/lilypond/dvi-preview.sh
in particular m and n options.

Note that this code is extremely ugly.
Also, evince seems to be nicer for viewing dvis than xdvi (did i say
anything about the script  being ugly?)