* Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.texi (Top): add -f texstr

* Documentation/user/invoking.itely (Invoking lilypond): document
texstr

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ee188cfce3b29b8a6ba4fa56e9bd762f08f5bbb4..dcebb017337ae60ca6b1579ecbaed26d29f8408e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2004-12-29  Han-Wen Nienhuys  <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
 
+       * Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.texi (Top): add -f texstr
+
+       * Documentation/user/invoking.itely (Invoking lilypond): document
+       texstr
+
        * scripts/convert-ly.py (conv): add ancient rules.
 
        * scm/clef.scm (c0-pitch-alist): replace - with .

diff --git a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.texi b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.texi
index a67c34cee44e81e43339acb18730f4559776069f..73f20c20f4ec4f0fa1fbd1861f18b8b99c04bfd7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.texi
+++ b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.texi
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 @unnumbered New features in 2.5 since 2.4
 
 @itemize @bullet
+@item
+Metrics of blocks of text can be retrieved from (La)@TeX{} directly,
+using the @code{-f texstr} output backend. This provides exact metrics,
+including kerning and accents, for texts.
 
 @item
 LilyPond now uses FreeType read the Feta font as an OpenType

diff --git a/Documentation/user/invoking.itely b/Documentation/user/invoking.itely
index 7359b9ac67c48a12e435c1d23a8e11b6c59fe1ef..1fdeee0ff3521097cc7ac0631fcd7112dff2fb5c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user/invoking.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/invoking.itely
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ information.
 the output format to use for the back-end.  Choices are
 @table @code
 @item tex
-for @TeX{} output, to be processed with La@TeX{}
+for @TeX{} output, to be processed with La@TeX{}.  If present, the file
+@file{file.textmetrics} is read to determine text extents.
+@item texstr
+dump text strings to @file{.texstr} file, which can be run through
+(La)@TeX{}, resulting in a @code{.textmetrics} file, which contains the
+extents of strings of text. 
 @item ps
  for PostScript
 @cindex PostScript output

diff --git a/input/test/ancient-font.ly b/input/test/ancient-font.ly
index 02986da90a902c133925cb0eab2c92f53c97563f..16aae2dad23d08c7001159079158c77bba8797ce 100644 (file)
--- a/input/test/ancient-font.ly
+++ b/input/test/ancient-font.ly
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ upperStaff = \context GregorianStaff = "upperStaff" <<
        \override NoteHead  #'style = #'hufnagel.punctum
        \clef "hufnagel-fa2"
        ces! des! es!
-       \override Staff.BarLine  #'bar.size = #3.0 \bar "|"
+       \override Staff.BarLine  #'bar-size = #3.0 \bar "|"
 %      \break % 6 (8*1)
 
        fes! ges!