Re: Emmentaler font issues with the infinality bundle [was: on Arch Linux builds]

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-12-09 23:36, Michael Gerdau wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> > Confirmed by a two-minute test without recompiling anything (I use
> > bohoomils repo for infinality, not the aur package). Could you do me a
> > favor and double-check whether the skylines change if you replace
> > {cairo,fontconfig,freetype2} by
> > {cairo,fontconfig,freetype2}-infinality-ultimate (possibly along with
> > the lib32- variants)?
> > No hurry, though, I'll have to find time to investigate more, and
> > whether the configuration can be changed to leave Lily's music fonts
> > alone...
>
> I used to use only the fonts repo.

Ah, I see.

> I now added
> [infinality-bundle]
>
> Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/x86_64
>
> [infinality-bundle-multilib]
>
> Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/x86_64
>
> to my pacman.conf and installed
> {cairo,fontconfig,freetype2}-infinality-ultimateall (plus lib32 variants)

Yes, that used to be my default configuration.

> Result:
> The skyline seems to be like in your 2.19.53 example.
> Going back to ArchLinux stock repos again gives your 2.19.50 version
> (which I seem to like better)

Indeed. The stock version is okay, the other one is plainly wrong IMHO. 
(The position of the octavation of treble_8 is a matter of taste, but it 
is as intended in the official Lily builds.)

I reported the issue on bohoomil's tracker at
  https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/186


Thanks a lot for the confirmation. I'll let the list know when I have 
further news on the subject.


Cheers,
Alexander