On 2011-11-15 10:29, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
Hello list,
when I am typesetting christian/latin or german music, there are often
passages with short notes and a lot of long syllables. The character 'M'
is a quite long one and if you have the german word "schlem -- men", it
also takes a lot of space. [...]
But I don't like the look of the uneven scaled text. Has anyone an idea
of a "softer" scaling function? Or has anyone another idea on this topic?
[...]
Hi Jan-Peter,
this might sound silly, but why not switch the font? I often write
syllabic German music, too, so I know your problem, and I often just use
a condensed font family.
E.g., the free DejaVu font family offers condensed serif variants.
If you can, I also highly recommend that you get a cheap old version of
the CorelDRAW suite (v6 or higher, I think, but just search the web to
find out) on eBay or the like.
It comes with a collection of about a thousand font variants, including
ones with proper condensed shapes. A good share of these fonts are of
pretty good quality, though I heard that serious typographers would beat
me up for saying so. They may not have excellent hinting or headline
variants, but I find them very suitable for some lyrics.
You'll probably get TrueType and Type1 files without amazing features
and huge character set, but it's really okay. Later versions (>= v13 and
the Corel X suites, I think) also ship with an OpenType collection, but
I did not get my hands on these so far.
Best,
Alexander
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