Am 11.07.2014 07:00, schrieb David Kastrup:
tisimst <[email protected]> writes:
All,
Is there anyone who is VERY against distributing music fonts in binary form
(i.e., as otf, svg, etc.files)? I just don't see how we can make other music
fonts available by forcing them to have a metafont source file. I guess that
could be nice, but it seems like so much work to do that. I have about 4 or
5 alternate music fonts that people could use and I certainly don't want to
convert them to metafont. They are currently designed and built with
fontforge.
What do you think?
Spirit of the GPL is delivering source code, defined as "preferred form
of modification, including all scripts etc". Now fonts are reasonably
separate anyway, but that's what we should stick with. METAFONT is just
one possibility here.
If the fonts are derived from some upstream source, automating the
derivation as much as possible makes sense in order to facilitate
integrating future improvements from upstream.
IIRC Abraham uses scripts to bring existing fonts (e.g. Bravura) to the
usable form. If that should be a completely automated process and would
for example make it possible to update the Profondo font automatically
if a new version of Bravura comes out that would be quite good. Bravura
itself is *not* delivered as source code, for example.
Urs
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