Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Han-Wen Nienhuys on Friday, October 28, 2005:
>
> > Robert Memering wrote:
> >
> > > But what about metrics and kerning? Just type \markup{Ve}
> > > (e.g. for "Veni sancte spiritus) and you know what I mean.
> > > This hurts my eyes. I can't release books of sheet music
> > > with text that looks like poor MS Word output.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to get the old Text quality back?
> >
> > Have you tried using a font which comes in OTF of TTF formats?
>
>
> But then it still doesn't use the .tfm files, or does it?

No, but TTF and OTF also contain kerning information too.

> Besides, at least on MacOS 10.3.9, including other fonts isn't
> trivial at all; at least I couldn't get it to work, and when I
> asked here nobody answered that he could.

Put them into ~/.fonts/ or symlink them from there.

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