Re: replacing mftrace with mf2pt1

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/12/16, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
> > >       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?
>
> No.  On CTAN, everything is found unpacked normally.  We could add
> mf2pt1.pl and mf2pt1.mp to GNU lilypond to avoid another dependency.
> Both files use the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) which is
> compatible with GPL.

This sounds like a reasonable approach. Can you add the files to the repo?

> > Are there requirements wrt fontforge versions?  We're building with
> > 20060501 right now, mostly because the QA of fontforge is somewhat
> > erratic at times.
>
> Well, I've reported a bunch of bugs w.r.t. removal of intersections to
> George -- I tried hard to improve the outlines to reduce critical
> cases as much as possible, but I'm not sure whether 20060501 really
> works as expected.  Currently, I'm running 20071105 which seems to be
> quite reliable.
>
> Looking into fontforge's changelog (this is, doing a `cvs log
> stamp.c') I see that the last spline intersection bug fixes are
> apparently from 20070427, and from 20070528 for rounding PS
> coordinates.

Let me know when you add the files; I will bump GUB's FF version so we
build binaries with the new version.

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