Re: SMuFL Bravura

[Urs Liska]

Hi Andrew and Johan,

Am 01.04.19 um 08:59 schrieb Johan Vromans:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 11:37:42 +1100, Andrew Bernard
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Now to learn Metafont then. Shouldn't be too hard -
> As a retired TeXnician I have deep respect for TeX and MetaFont.
> Nevertheless I think the right way now is to go for widely accepted
> standards where possible.
>
> So I'd rather see decent SMuFL integration than more home grown Emmentaler
> extensions.


I wanted to join this discussion although my comments had already become 
separate from the direction of the discussion, but your comment gives me 
a good opportunity.

These are two separate discussions, and I think SMuFL integration is not 
opposed to extending Emmentaler and to using the Metafont approach in 
the first place.

As has been pointed out currently SMuFL fonts such as Bravura can only 
be used with a compatibility layer and actually using the fonts in a 
non-native way. When Bravura is only wanted for its font design there is 
a working clone by Abraham that can be used.

SMuFL integration doesn't seem to be very high on our priority list, but 
I think it is by now accepted that changing LilyPond's font handling to 
be SMuFL compliant would be a good thing to have. That's why we even 
have a GSoC project suggestion for it: 
http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html#Adopt-the-SMuFL-music-font-encoding-standard. 
Making LilyPond's font handling compatible to using SMuFL fonts would 
not mean that Emmentaler can't still be created from Metafont sources.

Andrew: Maybe having a look at that project would also be an option for 
you? (Considering that chances we'll have a student working on it 
through GSoC are definitely below 50%) It might even be an opportunity 
to get familiar with how things work ...

Urs


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