Re: OpenType Features

[James]

Hello Jay,

On 18/01/16 16:59, Jay Anderson wrote:
> I'm interested in seeing what it would take to add OpenType features
> -- specifically old style number figures (onum) and small caps (smcp).
>
> First issue: It appears that lilypond is dependent on pango 1.6
> (pangoft2 - required 1.6.0, INSTALL.txt says pango 1.12 or newer so
> I'm not totally sure what to believe.). 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor-big-page#requirements

> OpenType features were added
> in pango 1.18 (assuming I'm reading this correctly:
> https://developer.gnome.org/pango/unstable/api-index-1-18.html). Are
> there known issues with making this the new minimum version?
>
> Any pointers on where to start in lilypond code? I'll look into this a
> bit this afternoon.
>
> This is the lilypond issue:
> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1388 (What's the
> new issue location? I couldn't find it in my quick searching and
> lilypond still points to google code
> (http://www.lilypond.org/bug-reports.html).

Yes we should fix that.

The new tracker is here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/?source=navbar

The Issue numbers should be the same.

James