Re: Missing items to make Cairo ready

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 14:41 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Am Fr., 6. Jan. 2023 um 14:26 Uhr schrieb Jonas Hahnfeld via
> Discussions on LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org>:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 14:21 +0100, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > > Le 06/01/2023 à 10:19, Jonas Hahnfeld a écrit :
> 
> > > I don't see any markup commands other than \postscript
> > > and \epsfile that we cannot fully support in Cairo.
> > 
> > Any number bigger than zero represents a "breaking change" for me, and
> > it's not the sort of change that can be fixed by convert-ly or even
> > manually because there is no (general) equivalent.
> 
> Imho, a good point to look at what users do with \postscript is the LSR.
> 
> Currently 20 snippets mention 'postscript'. I'm pretty sure most of
> them can be modified to use \path etc.
> Apart from https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1060
> This one is nice, though.
> 
> Anyway, I'd offer to modify said snippets during the 2.25. circle.
> Maybe it helps deprecating \postscript ?

Yes, this has been my proposal all along: Deprecate it for one stable
release, and then we can remove it with the major version 3.0 along
with Cairo becoming the default.

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