Re: OpenType support in Windows

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I recently tested LilyPond on Windows 8 (Enterprise Development
>> Test version running on VirtualBox). It appears that LilyPond does
>> not support any OpenType features on Windows 8 (at least as of
>> version 2.16.2).
> 
> We have issues
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2657> and
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2656>.  At
> one point of time in the 2.16 release cycle, they were considered
> release critical.  They only reason they have been downgraded is
> that nobody is working on them and nobody has a clue _how_ to work
> on them, so there was no point in stopping the release process for
> them when no solution was going to appear magically.

Yeah.  We urgently need a developer working on Windows who is
sufficiently familiar with GNU stuff, in particular with Pango and
Harfbuzz.  Behdad Esfahbod, the developer of Harfbuzz, is willing to
help provided we have someone who can test and debug patches.

>> What is causing support of OpenType features to fail in Windows
>> even though it works in Ubuntu -- is it the fault of LilyPond,
>> Ghostscript, Uniscribe, or something else?
> 
> Nobody seems to know.

Most likely it is a Pango issue related to Harfbuzz.


    Werner