CFF font sets

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> There seems to be a fundamental problem regarding CFF font handling.
> Looking into framework-ps.scm I see a function called
> `ly:font-sub-fonts'.  If I understand you correctly you want to group
> all emmentaler design sizes into a single `FontSet', right?  While
> this is possible in PS, it is *not* possible if the CFF is wrapped
> into an SFNT data structure: There is no mechanism in SFNT to select a
> subfont, and something like `OpenType collections' in analogy to
> `TrueType collections (TTC)' doesn't exist.

No, you're wrong ly:font-sub-fonts is a kludge to keep TeX working. It
returns (feta20 parmesan20 feta-alphabet20) for the emmentaler font.

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