On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:59:10 +0100 Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote:
> On 23.12.2016 22:34, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > Why does the Feta font have one glyph for each of the 4 directions > > in which an arrow head generated with \arrow-head can point? Why > > not simply rotate one glyph in the first place? (I’m sure the > > Metafont code does just that, though it would strike me more > > logical to do it on a ‘higher’ level.) > > Can anyone comment on this Feta question? Is it simply for the same reason any font has a separate character that is a 'rotated' version of its counterpart? e.g. '<' and '>' or '/' and '\' Why *wouldn't* you make separate font 'objects' for fundamental glyphs? James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
