Re: New font installation idea

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > > +Creating nice-looking PDF files
> > > +
> > > +If you have generated and installed the so-called Type1 versions
> > > +of the fonts, and have Ghostscript version 6.0 or later, you can
> > > +make PDF versions of your scores that look nice both on screen 
> > > +and on paper. You just have to tell dvips to use the Type1 
> > > +version of the fonts:
> > > +
> > > +dvips -ulilypond.map -Ppdf myscore.dvi
> > > +ps2pdf myscore.ps
> > 
> > Maybe we should put pdf's on the website too, if it's that easy now?
> 
> Abolutely! I'd recommend to replace the current .ps.gz files
> with PDF. I'm not sure about the best way to access the fonts
> when building the web doc, though. I see three options:
> - Let the make rules assume that the fonts already have been 
>  installed and are directly available.
> - Let the make rules do a temporary font installation somewhere.
> - Keep the old crowd of environment variable settings within the
>   make files.
> 
> I should add some lines on PDF file generation also in the 
> ordinary user documentation.

we could mix #2 and #3: if you assume that $TEXMF is lilypond-X/
you're already halfway there. (or perhaps wholeway, since kpathsea
will search subdirectories as well?)

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