Re: using "embedded" fonts outside Lilypond [REVISITED]

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Kieren Richard MacMillan writes:

> Having spent a little more time in pfaedit, I think I now understand
> what needs to be done. I would love to help the lilypond cause if I
> can, so if you want, I would be pleased to pfaedit the fonts so that
> they are "acceptable" and then make them available back to you.

Ok, but remember that doing work in pfaedit is not the way to go.
It's allright to play with pfaedit to see what must be done, but
sources are in metafont; changes in the font layout should be done in
metafont.

> If I understand the situation correctly, it seems like we just need to
> assign Unicode codes to each glyph before saving (e.g., as a .dfont or
> .ttf).

Well, that's what I'm not sure about.  I think (hope) that just moving
chacacters out of the control-character range would be enough.

Jan.

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