Re: Emmentaler letters in LaTeX, kerning -- help wanted

[David Kastrup]

"Urs Liska" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently rewriting my lilyglyphs package
> (http://ctan.org/pkg/lilyglyphs,
> https://github.com/uliska/lualilyglyphs) to make better use of
> advanced Lua functionality, which I hope will be great for future
> extensibility. And right now I've come across a great opportunity for
> someone (or somemultiple) people with little programming background
> but great enthusiasm to help me with that effort.
>
> There has always been a command lilyText{} that simply renders its
> argument using the Emmentaler font, which works for the rather few
> characters in Emmentaler that are at the regular positions in the
> font, namely dynamic letters, numbers and punctuation. In the earlier
> implementation I had added a number of special commands to typeset
> dynamic letter combinations that need kerning, e.g. lilyRFZ. But now
> I've implemented functionality to declare kerning pairs so one can
> simply write lilyText{rfz} and have the necessary kerning between the
> 'r' and the 'f' applied automatically.

Wouldn't it be a lot more generally useful (and likely more efficient
since the mechanism is made for that) to just add those kerning pairs to
the Emmentaler font itself?

-- 
David Kastrup