Re: Elision mark glyph

[Werner LEMBERG]

> While we're on this subject: there's another quite important (at
> least in my line of work) glyph missing, and that's a better mark
> for lyric elisions. At present, it's a slur SPANNING the last letter
> of one word and the first of the next, but ideally it should be a
> small semi-circle JOINING the words.

Do you have a good image?  Yesterday I've written to a TeX-Gyre
developer asking for addition of this glyph to the `Schola' font, a
(greatly advanced) successor of New Century Schoolbook.

  http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/schola

A real-world image would help a lot.

> As glyphs go, this is probably the easiest there is, since there
> should be no decorations or serifs or anything, just the lower half
> of a circle.

Hmm, I'm not really convinced that this is the best shape available.
Additionally, such a glyph is dependent on the used font, isn't it?
Ideally, it should be thus part of the font used for the text, and not
part of a separate lilypond font.

> I can write THAT in metafont, but I have no idea how to incorporate
> it in the macro system that the feta font apparently needs to comply
> with.

I will assist you in case we decide that it really belongs to feta.


    Werner