Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or >> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't >> produce a fine font if you give up before trying. > > Fine, try it.
I am trying, only with a music font, as a required side project for LilyPond. I'll leave text fonts to people writing text based applications, for now. > But that's not the sort of thing you need a project for, FWIW, it has helped me a lot not doing this all by myself. If it weren't for others in the project (encouraging, criticizing, fun) I'd long given up. > and it's not the sort of thing you can rail against a bunch of software > developers for not doing. Well, who else is there? Some software developers are rather clever, critical and eager to learn. If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text, but you omit a good font, it's useless. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org