Re: urg.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm certain we can produce the PDF backend. It's just that I thought
> it would be a convenient way to deal with TTF fonts.

Why do you think that TTFs are easier to handle than the OTFs we
already have?  Both flavours use the SFNT wrapper format; the
differences are one level below.  It should be straightforward to put
the OTFs into a PDF document.  The very problem is subsetting of the
fonts to get smaller documents, something which is beyond lilypond
IMHO.

> Oh, of course I forgot another option: we can construct a Type42
> font ourselves.

I discourage that.  You loose flexibility.  OTFs are much more
compact.


    Werner