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Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: replacing Century Schoolbook font
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:48:07 -0200

2008/1/28, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> Cyrillic block have been fixed).  As an additional benefit, the fonts
> are directly available as full-featured OpenType fonts (this is, they
> come with a large bunch of OpenType features).  While the metrics are
> slightly different (due to improvements), the overall shapes of the
> glyphs are almost identical.
>
> The replacement for Century Schoolbook is called TeXGyreSchola:
>
>   http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/schola
>
> I strongly suggest to use those fonts, and I'm willing to update
> lilypond so that they get included and used.

Sounds great!  Go for it!

> PS: Two questions in case you think the above is a good idea: Shall we
>     distribute SVG and PFB versions of TeXGyreSchola?

Since all of the SVG renderers are broken wrt fonts, let's drop the
SVG ones.  The PFB will be lacking all the interesting features, so
let's not dist those either.

-- 
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen




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