Re: Circular staff

Tina Petzel:
> > One quick (?) question: Can you think of a way to make lyrics follow the 
> curve,
> > rather than each word being on a rigid flat baseline? (With small syllables,
> > it’s fine of course, but longer syllables like “round” highlight what I 
> mean.)
> 
> Actually thought about that one. The problem is that Lilypond does not offer 
> much control over the font rendering engine behind it. Doing this essentially 
> requires us to manage font rendering ourselves.
...
> But with postscript backend we’d need to handle all aspects of font rendering 
> ourselves, including letter spacing, kerning, ligatures, ...
...

 The postscript "blue book" contains an example of fircular text (p.168-171)
 as well of text along an arbitrary path (p.172-175).

 https://archive.org/details/PSBlueBook/page/167/mode/2up

Regards,
/Karl Hammar