replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, the TeX-Gyre project (financially supported mainly by the German TeX Users' Group, DANTE) is developing replacements for the set of common URW fonts. The project isn't finished yet, but already now the glyph repertoire has almost doubled, compared to the set of glyphs currently in

Re: lilypond, guile, qt integration

2008-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I forward this to lilypond-devel, which is more appropriate for discussions about this experimental feature. As far as I know, this experimental feature was introduced in 2004, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2004-05/msg00160.html but hasn't been maintained since then and it

Re: \times - \tuplet

2008-01-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: IMO the nice way to do this would be to add a conservative-option to convert-ly. When conservative is on, convert-ly tries to stay as close as possible to the old syntax (i.e. keeping times), when conservative is off, it tries to use as many of the new constructs as it

Re: \times - \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch - \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:36:20 - Trevor Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too oppose this as a mandatory change, and the creation of an alias. \times does exactly what the word 'times' implies and not what 'tuplet' would imply. The change would lead to still greater confusion, with new

Re: \times - \tuplet

2008-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:08 +0100 Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Well, this is always the problem with open-source: it takes to time implement new features, and then it takes time to maintain them. (that said, this could probably be done in such a way that

RE: \times - \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch - \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Bryan Stanbridge wote on 27 January 2008 21:38 John Mandereau wrote: There has already been a *huge* thread on the -user list about this, and the conclusion was that the only realistic change we could do was renaming \times to \tuplet, and nothing else; the point of my remark in

Re: \times - \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch - \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 28 januari 2008, schreef Trevor Daniels: I too oppose this as a mandatory change, and the creation of an alias.  \times does exactly what the word 'times' implies and not what 'tuplet' would imply.  The change would lead to still greater confusion, with new users writing the

Re: \times - \tuplet

2008-01-28 Thread Till Rettig
From the user's point of view I am really happy with a change to this situation. I would be really fine with tuplet, but also factor seems to me (also German speaker :-) a good solution. In my opinion the best for now would be a alias with changes in the documention -- change all mention of

Re: Postponed Bugs #83 and #297: a Someone Else Problem

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Memering
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 23:19 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: For issue 297, I can change the formatting to end exactly on the last note; would that solve the problem? Juergen? I would be very happy if only this could be solved! However, there is one additional problem with ligature brackets:

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The only question to me is: how can be made use of these unicode features? I don't know. :-) Han-Wen probably can answer this -- if it's not possible to use features right now, maybe it can be implemented some time. Do the metrics make additional affords? Are they somehow hard coded into

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-28 Thread Till Rettig
Werner LEMBERG schrieb: Folks, the TeX-Gyre project (financially supported mainly by the German TeX Users' Group, DANTE) is developing replacements for the set of common URW fonts. The project isn't finished yet, but already now the glyph repertoire has almost doubled, compared to the set

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-28 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 19:37 +0100, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : The only question to me is: how can be made use of these unicode features? I don't know. :-) Han-Wen probably can answer this -- if it's not possible to use features right now, maybe it can be implemented some time. I

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-28 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:16 PM, John Mandereau wrote: Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 19:37 +0100, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : The only question to me is: how can be made use of these unicode features? I don't know. :-) Han-Wen probably can answer this -- if it's not possible to use features right

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The only question to me is: how can be made use of these unicode features? I don't know. :-) Han-Wen probably can answer this -- if it's not possible to use features right now, maybe it can be implemented some time. You can insert any UTF-8 character and LilyPond will render it