On Fri 16 Feb 2018 at 12:01:10 (-0600), msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Shane Brandes wrote: > > Got it to work. Figured out you can change to what ever font you want > > in the sty file. Lessening the the grayscale variability and some of > > the other variables with the use of a historical font yields really > > convincing period style documents. This is absolutely great. > > Really real typewritten documents wouldn't have every instance of every > letter shifted independently at random as this package does, though. > Instead, individual typewriters would have unique but systematic > distortions. Maybe on my typewriter, each "e" would be a little lower > than the baseline and each "T" would be tiled three degrees; and on your > typewriter it would be some other distinctive pattern. These kinds of > things were important in forensic analysis as a way of identifying which > typewriter was used to produce a document.
And when you apply these changes to your font, don't forget to add realism by filling the e's counter¹ with a fabric-like grey mimicing the accumulated fluff off the ribbon. Old typewriters could wear enough to make their fullstops look like tiny circles. ¹ and, randomly, other small counters like a, g, %. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
