Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-30 Thread Till Rettig
Han-Wen Nienhuys schrieb: 2008/1/28, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You can insert any UTF-8 character and LilyPond will render it as long as Pango can find a font installed on your system that includes a glyph for that symbol. Pango also handles kerning and ligatures automatically,

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > I strongly suggest to use those fonts, and I'm willing to update > > lilypond so that they get included and used. > > Sounds great! Go for it! OK. > > PS: Two questions in case you think the above is a good idea: > > Shall we distribute SVG and PFB versions of TeXGyreSchola? > > Since

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Good question. Han-Wen, is there still a reason why we distribute > > the PFB versions? > > Do we? I thought we only distributed the OTFs, although a regular > install (through make) might install them for completeness sake. > Definitely something we can junk. OK. As soon as [1] is fixed, I

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/1/28, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Cyrillic block have been fixed). As an additional benefit, the fonts > are directly available as full-featured OpenType fonts (this is, they > come with a large bunch of OpenType features). While the metrics are > slightly different (due to improve

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/1/28, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What use would the pfb fonts have? > > Good question. Han-Wen, is there still a reason why we distribute the > PFB versions? Do we? I thought we only distributed the OTFs, although a regular install (through make) might install them for completen

Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

2008-01-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/1/28, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You can insert any UTF-8 character and LilyPond will render it as > > long as Pango can find a font installed on your system that includes > > a glyph for that symbol. Pango also handles kerning and ligatures > > automatically, if the font(s) you

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 w

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 now

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.

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 of

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 Centur