Re: urg.

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > > I vote for that.  It has the additional advantage that you still
> > > have both PS and PDF output with a single backend in case you use
> > > GS.  Regarding fontconfig I suggest you contact the GS people for
> > > assistance -- I can imagine that other people have similar needs,
> > > and maybe a proper solution already exists.
> > 
> > This would be a nice hack. It would also solve the huge amount of
> > diskspace necessary for building the web docs. Unfortunately, I
> > don't think we have enough clout to force an upgrade of GhostScript
> > everywhere within the next 2 months.
> 
> lilypond needs a lot of external resources, so why not demand a recent
> version of gs too?  Before diving into font issues I strongly

Because GS is a critical infrastructure part, which ties into the
printing system of Linux distros. Fedora Core 4 will probably ship
with GS7.07 because the CUPS integration of 8.15 isn't out of beta
yet. I myself had trouble installing GS8.15 on my machine (I still
haven't worked out how to properly let it recognize system fonts),
which leads me to believe that many users will give up on lily 2.6.

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