patch::: 0.1.17.jcn2: biems

[lilypond.git] / mf / autometric.mf

diff --git a/mf/autometric.mf b/mf/autometric.mf
index 6d87094155659cda2b5b1d26d8671b60641f126f..e178978ddd1f754ff45c0a09bf87d313468ede20 100644 (file)
--- a/mf/autometric.mf
+++ b/mf/autometric.mf
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 % autometric.mf
 % part of LilyPond's pretty-but-neat music font
+% 
+% these macros help create ascii logging output
+% to automate generation of lily tables and tex backend
+% parsed by the mf-to-table script
 
 % font or database?
 def fet_beginfont(expr name,size) =
@@ -25,8 +29,15 @@ def fet_endgroup(expr name) =
        message "";
        enddef;
        
-def fet_beginchar(expr code,w,h,d,name,id,texstr) =
-       message "@@char:"&name&":"&decimal code&":"&decimal w&":"&decimal h&":"&decimal d&":"&id&":"&texstr&"@@";
+% starts just as plain mf's beginchar:
+%     charcode, width, height, depth
+% and then adds:
+%     charname see below
+%     breapth  x-depth
+%     id       index in lily's table
+%     texstr   name of tex macro in lily's table and tex backend
+def fet_beginchar(expr code,w,h,d,b,name,id,texstr) =
+       message "@@char:"&name&":"&decimal code&":"&decimal w&":"&decimal h&":"&decimal d&":"&decimal b&":"&id&":"&texstr&"@@";
        beginchar(code,w,h,d) name;
        enddef;