Output format (was Re: Brackets wrongly aligned (bf))

[David Gibson]

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> 
> that seems overkill for the bracket. The vertical part is just a
> rule.  All that has to be done, is making sure that the pixels of the
> "hooks" and the rule align.  The rule can be done with \[hv]rule, but
> I'd rather move towards PS in stead of TeX.  The current setup forces
> an awkward 3 pass system onto the user (lilypond, tex, xdvi)

I agree that the TeX pass is a pain, since you have to muck around to make
sure the right fragments are included etc.. etc.. However direct to
Postscript has a few problems. For one thing a using ghostview/gv is a lot
slower than xdvi.

What about outputting DVI directly. As far as I understand the format is
basically "glyphs in boxes", which should suit the style of Lilypond's
output. Plus it's designed to work with metafonts. If you want
postscript/hardcopy output, running dvips is a lot less painful than the
current TeX pass.

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