2.16 backports [WAS: LSR-image cropped]

2012-09-19 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 18/09/2012 11:59, David Kastrup ha scritto: Of course,_planning_ the next round of LSR updates is fine. It is not like there will be functional changes in 2.16 any more (check for more info, disregarding the 2.15 or earlier labels), so if you get a file ported over, you should not need to r

Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question

2012-09-19 Thread Phil Holmes
I'm playing with metafont to redesign the mensural c clef and see that most of the clefs are drawn by creating a pattern of the desired shape and then filling it. An alternative would be to select a pen and draw the shape by connecting the vertices. Is there any objection about using this as a

Re: aux files to cache compilation info

2012-09-19 Thread Ramana Kumar
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:40 AM, m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: > I did my first tests with this on a Mozart horn concerto that takes 42 > seconds to compile. It looks like using .aux files would shave off 2-4 > seconds for the line breaking (assuming that "line breaking" is the time it > takes to ex

Re: Outdated help2man; avoiding needing to "build" help2man.pl

2012-09-19 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno gio, 13/09/2012 alle 14.51 -0700, Don Armstrong ha scritto: > In stepmake/stepmake/help2man-rules.make, I ran across the following: [snip] > While it's correct, you can trivially work around this problem by > changing > > #!@PERL@ -w > > to > > #!@PERL@ -w > #! perl -w > > in scrip

Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question

2012-09-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm playing with metafont to redesign the mensural c clef and see > that most of the clefs are drawn by creating a pattern of the > desired shape and then filling it. An alternative would be to > select a pen and draw the shape by connecting the vertices. Please call FONTFORGE=foo mf2pt1 --

Re: aux files to cache compilation info

2012-09-19 Thread mike
On 2012-09-19 05:40, Ramana Kumar wrote: 2) Create an ugly-lily.ly [1] file.  This file would remove several engravers, change most callbacks to hardcoded values and have everything spaced on one line unless breaks were forced and would output the document to a huge page.  This could be used for

Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question

2012-09-19 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Werner LEMBERG" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question I'm playing with metafont to redesign the mensural c clef and see that most of the clefs are drawn by creating a patte

Re: GOP2-5 - GLISS discussions

2012-09-19 Thread John Mandereau
Il giorno gio, 13/09/2012 alle 23.13 -0700, Graham Percival ha scritto: > http://lilypond.org/~graham/gop/gop_6.html > > ** Summary > > We’ve gone over the same arguments a number of times, so let’s try > to resolve them. Fluff will go on a new mailing lilypond-quacks > mailing list. Serious prop

Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question

2012-09-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> To try to get this working at all, I've copied the font file, mftpt1 > and mf2pt1.mem to the same directory - it's the only way it would run > at all on my system. You should rather copy the whole mf directory to a separate place, then add `mf2pt1' (the perl script), `mf2pt1.mp' (a layer to tra

Re: Mensural c clef - metafont design/philosophy question

2012-09-19 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > I'm playing with metafont to redesign the mensural c clef and see that > most of the clefs are drawn by creating a pattern of the desired shape > and then filling it. An alternative would be to select a pen and draw > the shape by connecting the vertices. Is there any ob