Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>>> ec-fonts-mftraced
>> Wait, you mean showed up and is now gone? What's it for anymore?
>> Why
>> did we ever have it? :)
>
> It was for Lily 2.4, which supported Latin1 encoding and fonts, but not
> unicode.
I see, so now that Unicode is supported, it's not relevant.
Does that mean that nobody will ever want ec-fonts-mftraced anymore?
(If so, I can drop the Debian package itself too.)
> No, Lily used to be linked against libkpathsea to locate TeX fonts, so
> it could determine dimensions of texts. This is no longer necessary with
> Pango. LilyPond now outputs PS directly, which you can include into TeX
> with \includegraphics{}. Supporting TeX (with all of its crappy support
> tools) was one of the major headaches of deploying LilyPond, and I'm
> very glad it's gone.
>
> If the manual suggests .tex is the default, then that would be a bug in
> the manual then; can you pinpoint it more exactly?
Let me check to make sure I have the right version of the manual. :)
I'll get back to you on that.
Thomas
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