2007/12/16, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > months ago I've finished my intense work on fixing the output of > metafont/metapost so that it can be reliably converted by mf2pt1 into > outlines (using fontforge as a backend which adds hints and removes > overlapping contours, among other things). > > What's still missing is the integration into lilypond itself, this is, > replacing the mftrace stuff with proper calls to mf2pt1. Can someone > help, please, who is familiar with the lilypond's make structure? > > The following has to be done: > > . As a preliminary step, install mf2pt1 2.4.2 (mf2pt1 it is > available from TexLive too, but it isn't installed). This > basically means putting `mf2pt1.pl' into the path and `mf2pt1.mp' > into a MetaPost directory. Then say > > mpost -progname=mpost -ini mf2pt1 \\dump > > and move the resulting `mf2pt1.mem' file to a place where MetaPost > can find it. > > Note that it also works with older (but not too old) versions of > mf2pt1. > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/mf2pt1
Is this distributed in a sane way somewhere? That is, a tarball with version numbers and install script? > . Say > > mf2pt1 --rounding=0.001 <font> > > instead of calling mftrace. > > That's it, I think. Are there requirements wrt fontforge versions? We're building with 20060501 right now, mostly because the QA of fontforge is somewhat erratic at times. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
