[wearing the FreeType maintainer hat] >> There are some uses for it in in-house font design - which to some >> extent could include lilypond - but MM fonts are not really offered >> any more, and nobody is developing along those lines.
Basically, I don't see any technical difficulties in using MM fonts... >> It's more or less an obsolete technology, and could not be recommended >> for lilypond. > > The font format may be obsolete, but the parameterization technology > does not seem to have seen a useful successor in interest. ... since (a) FreeType supports MM fonts out of the box, in case you need a rasterizer, and (b) there are utilities like `mmpfb' which create Type 1 single-master fonts from Multiple Master fonts. Howver, my opinion is that we don't *need* Multiple Masters in general. What we really need is an option to select a stylistic variant which contains a set of finely tuned glyphs representing a certain style, and OpenType provides the perfect means for that, namely up to 20 stylistic sets (features `ss01' to `ss20'). Alas, lilypond still lacks an interface to OpenType features, which would be very useful for other typographical stuff also. This is issue #1388, BTW. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user