On Jan 9, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 9 January 2013 12:07, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >> The font should cover the most important languages used for >> `classical' vocal music, especially operas. This includes Italian, >> German, French, Czech (e.g. Dvořák), Russian (in Cyrillic), English, >> probably Hungarian (Bartók). Today it's common that the original >> language is typeset in upright shape, and a translation in italic, but >> sometimes it's vice versa. >> >> I've also seen a transliteration (using IPA) instead of a translation, >> so covering the IPA characters for the above languages would be useful >> also. > > Assuming 4 styles (reg bold italic bold-italic) for that character > set, I'd estimate $40,000 is a minimum. > > -- > Cheers > Dave
You may not care about bold italic as a practical matter. If so then some savings can be had there. Alternatively a set of small caps and or version of the font where the caps are spaced to each other rather than to the lower case might suit your needs better. Most fonts use a capital spacing which is a compromise between what the lower case needs and what cap to cap spacing needs. If you split it you can make sure each need is fully met. -e. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
