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RE: FYI: encoding issues
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
RE: FYI: encoding issues |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:34:27 +0100 |
address@hidden writes:
> [...]
> > * good support for non-western lyrics,
> >
> > * usable PostScript output
> >
> > * better support for TeX's text formatting features.
> >
> > * A cleaner system for reading and processing fonts.
>
> Please don't answer the following questions if you feel they're
> inappropriate. I'm just being curious...
>
> Since a few months ago, I was under the impression that the Lilypond TeX
> backend would be gradually moved to maintenance mode, in favor of the
> PostScript backend. Is that correct?
Yup.
> If not, what is the motivation for continuing to invest time into both
> TeX and PostScript backends?
Practically: TeX has more formatting capabilities. Personally, I want
to minimize the amount of time I sink into TeX, but Werner thinks it
is a valuable feature, and he has been (hopefully: will be) willing to
keep that back-end up to date.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen