I would gladly attempt to make new glyphs if someone would explain to me how they are encoded and how to get them out of the source code. I usually make ttf and otf for my foundries products.
Shane On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com> wrote: > On 20/02/2012 14:18, Nils wrote: >> my pusblisher wants baroque figured bass gylphs. They have the strokes in >> different places than the Lilypond versions. >> I guess nobobdy did this so far, so I have to do it myself. > > Yes, we have a feature request > (http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2042 ), but no one > has done any work on it. > >> Where is the point in the code where I have to start? I want to do it right >> and use the same lilypond syntax like 4\+ or 6\\. > > I suppose that the proper way would be to create new glyphs in our fonts > (using metafont, source file mf/feta-numbers.mf) and then adjust the > format-bass-figure function (in scm/translation-functions.scm) to use > those glyphs for the slashed figures. > > You could of course try to modify format-bass-figure without touching > the fonts, but then it will always look like the figures in Robert > Kelly's table, where a + or a ` is stacked onto a normal digit, clearly > showing they are two different glyphs. > > Cheers, > Reinhold > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ > * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria > * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 > * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
