Greciliae too low?

[eroux]

Now that I'm taking a look at greciliae after modifying another font, there is something I'm really puzzled by: I think greciliae is way too low! It's partiularly obvious on porrectus: when one is used to another font, it's hard to read what not a porrectus is in greciliae... Comparing with the original caeciliae, it's quite obvious to me that there's been a mistake during the import... Before I'm making a few attempts at fixing it (after finishing #803 of course), I'd like to know what you think?

[henryso]

Can you post some images of greciliae vs caeciliae? I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "low".

[eroux]

Here is a porrectus in caeciliae:

and the same in greciliae:

in caeciliae, the staff line is around the middle of the left of the stroke, while is greciliae, it's around the third...

[henryso]

Thank you. In that case, I agree, but some people may be used to greciliae...

[eroux]

Yes... How do you think we should proceed? Should we ask the user list? Maybe propositing between the two options:

• just change greciliae
• reimport caeciliae and rename the old one greciliae-old

?

[henryso]

If we are going to only package one font and make the rest available for download, I think it would be best to have "greciliae-old", "gregorio", "parmesan", and all the "-op" fonts be available that way, with "greciliae" (new) being the one that is distributed.

If we are not going to do that, then I would announce this to the list in order to help us decide whether we just replace greciliae or distribute both.

I am open to any other ideas, as well.

[eroux]

Making a few calculations, the caeciliae glyphs should be scaled by 1.26 and then shifted down by 391.42. I don't know what calculations I did during initial import, but it clearly wasn't this one... Maybe what's best is to finish #803 and then I'll work a few hours on this new import, make a sample pdf with simple glyphs, and propose the change to the list... What do you think? Unless someone would like to give it a try? (it's a bit repetitive, but it's also a bit fun!) @eschwab or @rpspringuel would you be interested and have a little time (I hope the merge for #803 can be tonight or tomorrow)?

[eroux]

I've made an attempt and sent it to the list, see this thread.

[eroux]

According to the only answer on the list, I guess it's no big deal to just change it... See branch fix-858 for an attempt, let's just wait a little more to see if other answers come.

[henryso]

I guess they answered you directly, because I haven't seen anything on the list. But I agree that we should wait a bit longer.

[eroux]

I didn't notice, but you're right, the answer was for me alone. There was only one answer, positive.