Re: Proper Text output (kerning etc.)

[Christian Ebert]

* Han-Wen Nienhuys on Saturday, October 29, 2005:
> 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.

Sure, but one of the reasons I use LaTeX for typesetting is that
I can profit from people who put a lot of time and effort to
create improved font metrics in sometimes crucial details -- like
you do for note engraving. Without the .tfm files this
improvement is lost.

>> 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.

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

c
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