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Re: Installing LilyPond fonts for use in programs under Windows 7


From: Carl Sorensen
Subject: Re: Installing LilyPond fonts for use in programs under Windows 7
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:15:49 +0000
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On 5/9/12 3:23 AM, "Philip Thomas" <address@hidden> wrote:

>><address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> And by the way, what is the relationship between Feta and Emmentaler?
>
>Han-Wen 
>Nienhuys replied:
>
>>feta was the original Type1 font.  Since Type1 fonts can only hold 256
>>entries, we had several of
>them.  Later we unified them into
>>Emmentaler ("a big cheese") which has all the glyphs in a single font.
>
>Nice! -- 
>especially since "feta" cheese has been a protected designation of origin
>product in the European Union since 2002,
>whereas the name "Emmentaler" is not protected and thus available for any
>cheesemaker to use. The metaphor can easily
>get stretched too far, though: Emmentaler cheese is characteristically
>full of holes ...

And the Emmentaler font is also full of holes.  It doesn't cover all of
the standard code points.....

Thanks,

Carl




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