Hi, 2013/11/30 Josiah Boothby <josi...@gmail.com>: > To clarify: > >> >> > Would you like to sponsor this? For $20 i could add special >> >> > accidentals to LilyPond font and adjust \flat, \sharp and >> >> > \natural commands to use them (and maybe others like \semiflat, >> >> > if i'll have time). >> >> >> >> Why not use the Unicode charpoints, like B♭, F♯ and so on? They >> >> are _supposed_ to go well with the text font and kern properly. >> > >> > I would gladly sponsor this, and have thought for a long time that >> > E\flat should not in most cases require any additional effort (much >> > less the considerable extra effort it currently requires) to look >> > correct. >> >> It's great that you're willing to sponsor! >> But, as your reply is below David's quoted message about Unicode >> accidentals, i'm not sure what you'd like to sponsor - could you >> clarify? >> Unicode accidentals are supported now, but as i already wrote, they >> look horrible in my opinon. > > I am interested in accidentals being usable in text markups in the form > of \flat or \sharp, preferably including microtones and > double-accidentals. I'll define "usable" here as being of a size and > placement that is visually balanced and pleasing. It's possible that > the best place to put them is in the music symbols charpoints of the > LilyPond fonts and draw from them as needed; I think this is what David > has suggested, but I know next to nothing about fonts from this angle. > In fact, I can't say I'm particularly picky about the mechanics of how > to make this work since this is so far outside of my areas of expertise.
ok, thanks for clarifying! > If other folks are interested in joining in on the sponsorship, I don't > object to help, but how do you prefer payment? SEPA transfer if you're in EU - otherwise probably PayPal. We'll see how to split the amount between sponsors when i'm finished - i originally intended to do just flat, natural and sharp, so doing all microtonal accidentals may take me extra time. best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
