Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-11-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-10-29 um 10:57 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: As an elucidation: you should use fonts which are distributed as .ttf files, like Verdana. Getting fonts working which are distributed as dfonts or inside Resource forks, is something that I'd love to work on that as a sponsored feature.

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-11-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: As an elucidation: you should use fonts which are distributed as .ttf files, like Verdana. Getting fonts working which are distributed as dfonts or inside Resource forks, is something that I'd love to work on that as a sponsored feature. dfonts work, but only

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Ebert
* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005: Robert Memering wrote: But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music with text that looks like poor MS Word output.

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Christian Ebert wrote: * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005: Robert Memering wrote: But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music with text that looks like

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Christian Ebert wrote: Pango on MacOS X is quite restricted and I don't think giving up the TeX backend completely is the right way to go. It might be easier on other machines but I am not convinced yet that the text output doesn't suffer. As an elucidation: you should use fonts which are

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Ebert
* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, October 29, 2005: Christian Ebert wrote: * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005: Robert Memering wrote: But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurts my eyes. I can't

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Ebert
* Christian Ebert on Saturday, October 29, 2005: * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, October 29, 2005: Christian Ebert wrote: Besides, at least on MacOS 10.3.9, including other fonts isn't trivial at all; at least I couldn't get it to work, and when I asked here nobody answered that he could.

Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Robert Memering wrote: But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve} (e.g. for Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean. This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music with text that looks like poor MS Word output. Is there any way to get the old Text quality back?

Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

2005-10-27 Thread Robert Memering
Hello all, I recently upgraded to 2.7.13 from 2.4.4 because I wanted to try some of the new features of the newer versions, esp. suggestAccidentals, which is a great improvement for me. I am really happy! (Now I can listen to my midis from full-of-musica-ficta renaissance pieces...) I also agree