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Re: Feta font modifications by Janek
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: Feta font modifications by Janek |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:35:46 +0200 (CEST) |
[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
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, (continued)
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Peter Bjuhr, 2013/09/04
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Shane Brandes, 2013/09/04
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Janek Warchoł, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, David Kastrup, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Janek Warchoł, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Andrew Bernard, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Kieren MacMillan, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, David Kastrup, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Janek Warchoł, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, David Kastrup, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek,
Werner LEMBERG <=
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- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Andrew Bernard, 2013/09/05
- Re: Feta font modifications by Janek, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/09/05
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