Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> > AFAIK, a .dfont is an archive of several TTFs, and should be possible 
> > to extract the right TTF font from the .dfont directly.
>
>
> Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana, for 
> instance, is a tradtional MacOS font, as far as I can tell. Also, I 
> think that some font files may have the pfa font already embedded, so 
> going through the ttf version may entail a loss of quality.

Verdana actually confuses me greatly. It's part of Microsoft Web fonts 
program. I just can't work out where they store the TTF/PFA files for 
these fonts.

> It would not be impossible to embed the fondu code in lilypond, but that 
> would definitely be more work, and at this stage in the release cycle, 
> it's probably not a great idea to add a considerably amount of code for 
> a marginal feature that is mostly needed on one platform.

Perhaps, but I see invoking ff or fondu externally as a potential 
support problem. If we ship early, but have to deal with a lot of 
questions from confused users, that will waste our time.

> > That should not be a surprise. The chinese/japanese fonts are shipped 
> > as OTF and TTF, which are already correctly embedded by Lily. No need 
> > for fontforge there.
>
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> Well no, at least on 10.4, lilypond tries to typeset that file by 
> pulling in the AppleMyunjo and Hei dfonts (fontconfig seems to take a 
> certain perverse pleasure in defaulting to fonts that lilypond has 
> difficulty embedding). Are you successful typesetting the file on 10.3 ? 

I have successfully typeset typography-demo.ly, which uses japanese.

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