Re: tex strings output

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> > I've put the first component of TeX generated text metrics in place
> > [...]
> >
> > as you can see, I used a lispish format for now.  The format is :
> >
> >   (FONT-NAME MAGNIFICATION TEXT)
> 
> After some investigation I found out that you have to do ugly hacks to
> convert a Lisp string to a TeX argument.  The main reason is that

no need to worry; I just use a hash of the string as ID.

> >   (FONT-NAME MAGNIFICATION TEXT BBOX-LIST)
> 
> For the same reasons, it is not possible to repeat the input argument
> in the output without using an auxiliary file.  I thus decided to use
> the following input format which isn't lispish any more but which
> should be easy to generate:

oh, btw, there is no need for scaling. Scaling can be handled
internally by Lily. 

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