Re: replacing mftrace with mf2pt1

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/12/16, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> months ago I've finished my intense work on fixing the output of
> metafont/metapost so that it can be reliably converted by mf2pt1 into
> outlines (using fontforge as a backend which adds hints and removes
> overlapping contours, among other things).
>
> What's still missing is the integration into lilypond itself, this is,
> replacing the mftrace stuff with proper calls to mf2pt1.  Can someone
> help, please, who is familiar with the lilypond's make structure?
>
> The following has to be done:
>
>   . As a preliminary step, install mf2pt1 2.4.2 (mf2pt1 it is
>     available from TexLive too, but it isn't installed).  This
>     basically means putting `mf2pt1.pl' into the path and `mf2pt1.mp'
>     into a MetaPost directory.  Then say
>
>       mpost -progname=mpost -ini mf2pt1 \\dump
>
>     and move the resulting `mf2pt1.mem' file to a place where MetaPost
>     can find it.
>
>     Note that it also works with older (but not too old) versions of
>     mf2pt1.
>
>       ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/mf2pt1

Is this distributed in a sane way somewhere?  That is, a tarball with
version numbers and install script?

>   . Say
>
>       mf2pt1 --rounding=0.001 <font>
>
>     instead of calling mftrace.
>
> That's it, I think.

Are there requirements wrt fontforge versions?   We're building with
20060501 right now, mostly because the QA of fontforge is somewhat
erratic at times.

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