Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

[Till Rettig]

Werner LEMBERG schrieb:
> Folks,
>
>
> the TeX-Gyre project (financially supported mainly by the German TeX
> Users' Group, DANTE) is developing replacements for the set of common
> URW fonts.  The project isn't finished yet, but already now the glyph
> repertoire has almost doubled, compared to the set of glyphs currently
> in Century Schoolbook (and many, many errors especially in the
> Cyrillic block have been fixed).  As an additional benefit, the fonts
> are directly available as full-featured OpenType fonts (this is, they
> come with a large bunch of OpenType features).  While the metrics are
> slightly different (due to improvements), the overall shapes of the
> glyphs are almost identical.
>   
It looks like a really good idea to me. The only question to me is: how 
can be made use of
these unicode features? As far as I understand some basic featueres are 
implemented already,
but there is no easy way to specify them in the .ly file yourself. I 
would, for instance, like to
specify old style numbers somtimes...
Do the metrics make additional affords? Are they somehow hard coded into 
the program? Isn't
it also easily possible to change the font and have it with its proper 
metrics loaded?
> PS: Two questions in case you think the above is a good idea: Shall we
>     distribute SVG and PFB versions of TeXGyreSchola?
>   
What use would the pfb fonts have? The svg seems to be a good thing if 
they will then be included
in a correct way into the lilypond svg files.

So far my thoughts
Greetings
Till
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