Re: [fontforge-users] Where is the changeWeight code?

Frank Trampe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.devel,gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.user
Message-ID <CANkSbhoWcrVeP2O7uVc-EHOTeEPoxMx=baO+i8tmc5FQ_SAQpA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, Werner.

I'm still curious as to why using recent FontForge with LilyPond is bad
news.


On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >> Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but occasionally I'll get
> >> extraneous lines that didn't exist prior to changing the weight or
> >> glyphs that are no longer closed (sometimes both).  [...]
> >
> > You should stay with the old FontForge version from 2012...
>
> Oops!  I've missed that you are writing to the fontforge list, not
> lilypond :-)  Consequently, my advice makes no sense.
>
> Anyways, it would be helpful to know whether the problem happens with
> the old FontForge version also.  In case this isn't true, you would
> become a hero by doing bisection.[*]
>
>
>     Werner
>
>
> [*] Since the build system changed completely since then, you would
>     have to build fontforge from scratch after each bisection step,
>     which is quite time consuming on a slow machine...
>
>
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