Till Rettig escreveu: > I am slowly evolving in my ideas and trials on the "ancient" fonts for > lilypond. So far I have a couple of good scans from which I would like > to take the shapes. But how is the best to get them into metafont? I > found something about mfpic (probably not good in this case), fig2mf > (sounds already better) and ps2mf (this might be the best?). But are > they good, can they do the job? I am so far imaginating that I would > take the scans as a picture and then kind of draw around them inside of > a vector programm. This would give them at least a really "handwritten"
I simply used pencil and paper, drawing by hand, and guessing control points. Then, a lot of tweaking makes the glyph look OK. Although this is harder at first, it makes a more logical to design a true MetaFont, one whose parameters (eg. thickness) can be varied continuously. > lining. The other idea that somehow sounded logical to me was the way > suggested in the fontforge tutorial: designing a glyph by setting points > at the outline of the glyph until there are enough points to describe > the form. But how is this done for instance in xfig? (As far as I > understand fontforge doesn't export to fm). You could trace the scans, and then Simplify the curve, and use that as a starting point for the meta font. > I acknowleged the fact that I will have to learn something about > metafont anyways, I thought I would go through the metafont tutorial by > Christophe Grandsire, this is old but since the program seems to be the > same... I simply read the mfbook cover to cover. It's available online, BTW. > Then about the single parts of the font (now for some white and black > mensural notation): I will create noteheads and stems extra, but since > the stems in some cases will have a form like the stem from the ! sign > (bigger at top), they won't fit together with the flags. So should there > be a separate flag + stem or rather a stem-flag combination? I don't understand this question. > And still the idea about introducing some variability to mimick the > handscribe, that is to have about four or five slightly different glyphs > that would be used in arbitrary order. Is something like this possible > in lilypond? it's possible, but I think it's not a good idea. If you want things to look crummy, you can always write them by hand? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
