Hi Urs, 2015-04-15 23:17 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>:
> Hi Pierre, > > just looking shortly at your files this seems really great! > Do you think you'd ever be able to write a blog post tutorial about this > stuff? > Thank you! Yes, my very first thought was to wright something on the blog. Time's missing but will do, promise. > And one thing I've been wondering for a while: Would it be possible to > expand on this approach to create slurs with more than four control-points? > I.e. more arbitrarily shaped curves? > Well, everything can be drawn so why not? I'll dig into this direction, interesting question! > > Urs > > Am 15.04.2015 um 22:13 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider: > > Hi List, > > Tonight I'd like to share with you some tools I'm experimenting for a > couple of weeks that can ease to make drawings with the 'path' command. > > Almost everyone here uses postscript images when a new glyph is needed. > But it may causes some issues (no svg, some overrides are not possible > e.g. color...) > So why not using 'path'? > > For sure, when I first put my eyes here (scroll down until 'samplePath'): > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/graphic.fr.html with > its weird fight glove glyph it looked a little mysterious. But after many > trials and with some self-made tools to help me finding the right > coordinates it revealed that it's a pretty powerful toy. > And a recent conversation made me think that maybe I could re-think and > enhanced those tools and shared them with you. So, here we go! > > The idea is to use LP and your favorite editor as a cad. > So please find herewith "graphPaper.ily" and an unfinished example to show > you how my glyphs are constructed. > Basically, all you need is knowing how to find coordinates on a graph, > combining an original glyph behind the graph paper and follow the lines > with the specific path commands: moveto, lineto, curveto, closepath (note > that I only use absolute coordinates). > "graphPaper.ily" includes a graph paper ("1" equivalent to the distance > between 2 staff lines) and ready to use tangents to help you to choose the > right Bézier coordinates. > I also put lots of comments in the example. Please feel free to ask if > anythings' unclear or badly explained. > > Waiting for your comments, > Cheers, > Pierre > > PS. Recent path examples added to the LSR: > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=991 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=989 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=988 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=987 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=986 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=984 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=982 (with absolute coordinates, LP > has already one with relatives') > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=973 (pseudo stems) > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=904 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=900 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=890 > > If you're still interested after this toooo-long list, Paul's specific > snippet are very helpful too: > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=891 > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=623 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing > listlilypond-user@gnu.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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