Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The only question to me is: how can be made use of these unicode
> features?

I don't know. :-) Han-Wen probably can answer this -- if it's not
possible to use features right now, maybe it can be implemented some
time.

> Do the metrics make additional affords?  Are they somehow hard coded
> into the program?

No.  However, for backwards compatibility, it's always good to go the
way of the least surprise.  On the other hand, lilypond changes its
formatting very often so I think that changed metrics are probably
just a minor thing.

> Isn't it also easily possible to change the font and have it with
> its proper metrics loaded?

Of course.  Nothing should prevent the user to use Schoolbook Century
if she wants to.

> What use would the pfb fonts have?

Good question.  Han-Wen, is there still a reason why we distribute the
PFB versions?  Except feta-alphabet[1] they aren't directly used.


    Werner


[1] This is something I consider a bug.  I can't see a reason to use
    feta-alphabet separately since the glyphs are already in the
    emmentaler font.