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Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:29:11 +0100 (CET) |
> > As perverse as it probably sounds in the very first moment, what
> > do you think of always create an EPS file, even for the TeX
> > backend, but without the text strings?
>
> Hmmm; that's an interesting idea. I agree it sounds perverse at the
> beginning, but on 2nd thought it actually makes sense, because there
> most of the TeX backend escapes to PS anyway, via the \embeddedps{}
> macro. Nevertheless, I don't see what practical advantage it would
> deliver.
The advantage is that we only have to externally handle the creation
of text strings, everything else is internal to lilypond. With other
words, we no longer need the feta/parmesan/... TFM and PFB files,
since TeX will never see those glyphs -- only lilypond uses them.
Compare this to metapost's handling of labels (mpman.ps, pages 20ff)
which also works with both groff and TeX.
Werner
- UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/01
- UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/01
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/02
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/03
- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Rogier van Dalen, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/05
- Re: [tex-live] Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Vladimir Volovich, 2005/01/05