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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel