re. lilypond output requiring cmr14 and cmr15
> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
> > *very* few people use sauter fonts nowadays, and i would have thought
> > it appropriate for lilypond output either to employ scaled standard cm
> > fonts, or to include the requisite .mf files in its distribution.
>
> Why not? Because everyone uses postscript fonts? Surely spacing etc
> is better with sauter fonts than with scaled cm fonts?
it's not really the spacing, but the shapes of the characters. sauter
aims (largely successfully) to make each of the cm series like an
adobe multiple-master font with a single optical size axis: moving
along that axis changes the shapes of the characters in minuscule
ways. you can really see the difference between <cmr5 scaled by 2.0>
and <cmr10> (say), but i would be surprised if there's much noticeable
difference between <cmr12 scaled \magstep1> and <sauter's cmr14>
really, i think, the point is accessibility. *everyone* with a tex
system of any sort has knuth's fonts available in some form or other.
the difference is small, but the sauter fonts are probably better. it
would be nice if one could control what's used, but if it's got to be
one set of fonts only, let it be knuth's set.
r
