tisimst wrote > Greetings, All! > > I have worked out a very nice way to switch between notation fonts in > LilyPond, both on a global document level and a local usage level. Up > until now, there were only a couple of music fonts available that were > really usable on a professional level: / > Emmentaler / > (the default, built-in font) and / > Gonville / > . There are also / > LilyJAZZ / > and / > Bravura / > (a SMuFL-compliant font), but they require some serious hacks to make > them work and they have trouble with even some basic notation elements > (like tempo markings, arpeggios, etc.). > > I am pleased to announce that I have several new music fonts, both in OTF > and SVG formats, that I'd like people to be able to use, but this requires > a patch to a single file, so anyone wanting to patch the file can do it > with little effort. It makes using other fonts as easy as putting a single > "\include" statement at the top of a .ly file. I use them all the time, > but I really want to share with the community that has shared so much with > me. * > My question is this: / > Is anyone interested in this? /* > > I know that the notation font is a small part of the way a score looks, > but I think we can all recall a time when a score just didn't look that > good and it was because of the notation elements, not just the score > layout. > > And, just so you know, I have LilyJAZZ (including all the latest and > greatest efforts for chords and a bunch of missing articulations, > characters, etc.) and Bravura (my version is called / > Profondo / > , for OFL licensing reasons) working perfectly as alternate music fonts. > In addition, these all provide access to all the ancient notation glyphs > as well, so nothing is lost (except for Gonville, which I haven't taken > the time to update at all). > > I eagerly await your responses! > > Happily Engraving, > Abraham
I'm certainly interested in hearing more about this! ----- composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Question-for-all-LilyPond-users-especially-power-users-tp164178p164183.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
