Re: ChordName Font [was: lilypond cameo]

[Marc Hohl]

Am 14.12.2010 20:09, schrieb Graham Percival:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:02:11PM +0100, Marc Hohl wrote:
> > Ok, you're right - but IMHO 1204 is about documenting the new font features,
> > whereas Marc Mouries proposed to include the Jazz font and Gonville into the
> > standard lilypond distribution, which is another issue.
> >
> > Does it make sense to include external fonts into lilypond?
> Technically, it's impossible to include external fonts, since once
> they're included they cease to be external.
But including included fonts doesn't work either... :)
> Patches will be thoughtfully considered (and I'm assuming that the
> patch is under GPLv3).  The main questions are "does it break
> anything that's currently working", "does it make things slower",
ok,
> and "does it make the download size much much bigger".
How much is "much much"? Gonville is 3.5 MB, the Jazz font is 10 KB.
Downloading lilypond is 20 MB, so personally, I don't think this would
break the "much much bigger" clause.

Regards,

Marc