Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2010-01-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> This doesn't make a lot of sense: you should print out the PDF on a >> 1200 dpi printer, and see how it looks on paper.  Screen appearances >> are misleading. > > OK, so if we print it out on a 1200 dpi printer, how do we get approval for >

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2010-01-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/1/10 4:08 PM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: > >>> >>> IIUC, you should do the following: >>> >>> 1) Make a sample at 1200 dpi and post it somewhere so that we can be >>> satisfied that it looks right at 1200 dpi. >>> >> >> Ok, I used th

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2010-01-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Marc Hohl wrote: >> >> IIUC, you should do the following: >> >> 1) Make a sample at 1200 dpi and post it somewhere so that we can be >> satisfied that it looks right at 1200 dpi. >> > > Ok, I used the same example and created a sample page. > It is available as a 1

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2010-01-01 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 1/1/10 2:52 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] Ok, so I'll go for this. It isn't as easy as I thought, because I cannot just rotate the whole picture, because the path is too complex for metafont. So I'll have to transform every poin

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2010-01-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 1/1/10 2:52 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> [...] >>> Ok, so I'll go for this. It isn't as easy as I thought, because I cannot >>> just rotate the whole picture, because the path is too complex for metafont. >>> So I'll have to transform every point and draw thereafter. I

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2010-01-01 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: [...] Ok, so I'll go for this. It isn't as easy as I thought, because I cannot just rotate the whole picture, because the path is too complex for metafont. So I'll have to transform every point and draw thereafter. It seems to work, but I have to change some explicit draw

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-31 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/31/09 7:45 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 12/31/09 6:37 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: >> >> >>> Carl Sorensen schrieb: >>> On 12/30/09 7:42 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: > > OK, I've at

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-31 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 12/31/09 6:37 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 12/30/09 7:42 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: OK, I've attached a 300 dpi png and with the clef rotated from 0 to 4 degrees. Thanks for your work

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-31 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/31/09 6:37 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 12/30/09 7:42 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: >> >> >>> Carl Sorensen schrieb: >>> >> >> OK, I've attached a 300 dpi png and with the clef rotated from 0 to 4 >> degrees. >> > Thanks for your work, Carl. >> An Inkscap

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-31 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 12/30/09 7:42 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 12/30/09 6:06 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: @Carl: I am not at all familiar with SVG. Could you please produce a file similar to the one you sent already with different rotating angles?

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-30 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: On 12/30/09 6:06 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: @Carl: I am not at all familiar with SVG. Could you please produce a file similar to the one you sent already with different rotating angles? I can only produce a file like that with the clefs you have designed if you ge

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/30/09 6:06 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > > @Carl: > I am not at all familiar with SVG. Could you please produce a file > similar to the one you sent already with different rotating angles? I can only produce a file like that with the clefs you have designed if you generate svg output instea

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-30 Thread Marc Hohl
Francisco Vila schrieb: 2009/12/29 Marc Hohl : I concatenated the pdfs to one file, which is too big for the list, so I put it on my website: http://www.hohlart.de/marc/gclef-slant.pdf I know that there is a spurious error on value 2, but I think that's not the main problem. Which value loo

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-29 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/29/09 1:54 PM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Marc Hohl schrieb: >> Francisco Vila schrieb: >>> Just to add a bit to the brainstorming: >>> >>> The uppermost lace of our G-clef already was slightly oversized. >>> I cannot explain why, but latest proposals I've seen are getting it >>> even greater

Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-29 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/12/29 Marc Hohl : > I concatenated the pdfs to one file, which is too big for the list, so I > put it on my website: > > http://www.hohlart.de/marc/gclef-slant.pdf > > I know that there is a spurious error on value 2, but I think that's not the > main problem. Which value looks best? At a ris

G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

2009-12-29 Thread Marc Hohl
Marc Hohl schrieb: Francisco Vila schrieb: Just to add a bit to the brainstorming: The uppermost lace of our G-clef already was slightly oversized. I cannot explain why, but latest proposals I've seen are getting it even greater. Anyone appreciates the same? Well spotted. I was not sure wh

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-24 Thread Marc Hohl
Francisco Vila schrieb: Just to add a bit to the brainstorming: The uppermost lace of our G-clef already was slightly oversized. I cannot explain why, but latest proposals I've seen are getting it even greater. Anyone appreciates the same? Well spotted. I was not sure whether this is kind o

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-23 Thread Francisco Vila
Just to add a bit to the brainstorming: The uppermost lace of our G-clef already was slightly oversized. I cannot explain why, but latest proposals I've seen are getting it even greater. Anyone appreciates the same? -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com No le de

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-23 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 23 décembre 2009 à 09:41 -0700, Carl Sorensen a écrit : > Having reviewed all four of the clefs, I think I like 3 the best, but I have > a hard time deciding between 3 and 4. Either of them seems fine to me. Looking at two-by-two comparisons of cropped graphics sent on the list, I agr

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/23/09 12:41 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 12/22/09 12:45 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: >> >> >>> Carl Sorensen schrieb: >>> On 12/21/09 1:52 PM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > [...] > > >> I like it much better.

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-23 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 23 décembre 2009 à 08:41 +0100, Marc Hohl a écrit : > Carl Sorensen schrieb: > > Looks good to me. I'd also like to see half-way between this attempt and > > the first attempt, not because I think this is wrong, but because I tend to > > find optimum settings by finding "not enough" an

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-23 Thread Marc Hohl
David Kastrup schrieb: Marc Hohl writes: Carl Sorensen schrieb: Looks good to me. I'd also like to see half-way between this attempt and the first attempt, not because I think this is wrong, but because I tend to find optimum settings by finding "not enough" and "too much" and going

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-23 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: > >> Looks good to me. I'd also like to see half-way between this attempt >> and the first attempt, not because I think this is wrong, but because >> I tend to find optimum settings by finding "not enough" and "too >> much" and going between those two.

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/22/09 12:45 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> >> On 12/21/09 1:52 PM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: >> >> >>> [...] >>> I like it much better. But I think that the bulb on the bottom of the clef needs to shift slightly to the right with this change.

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/21/09 1:52 PM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > [...] >> I like it much better. But I think that the bulb on the bottom of the clef >> needs to shift slightly to the right with this change. >> > Like the attached one? > You may use the pdf file for a printout. This may be a bit too much differen

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/21/09 3:08 AM, "Marc Hohl" wrote: > Carl Sorensen schrieb: >> Jan Nieuwenhuizen xs4all.nl> writes: >> >> >>> Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon >>> Tatham: >>> >>> It's interesting that you should mention that: that actually reminds me o

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Marc Hohl wrote: It's interesting that you should mention that: that actually reminds me of one of my specific issues with Feta, namely that the curved centre line of its treble clef _does_ make it look to me as if it's leaning over backwards. G

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-21 Thread Trevor Daniels
Marc Hohl wrote Monday, December 21, 2009 10:08 AM Carl Sorensen schrieb: Jan Nieuwenhuizen xs4all.nl> writes: Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: It's interesting that you should mention that: that actually reminds me of one of my specific issue

Re: Alternative music font

2009-12-21 Thread Marc Hohl
Carl Sorensen schrieb: Jan Nieuwenhuizen xs4all.nl> writes: Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: It's interesting that you should mention that: that actually reminds me of one of my specific issues with Feta, namely that the curved centre line of

Re: Alternative music font

2009-11-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> > It's interesting that you should mention that: that actually reminds >> > me of one of my specific issues with Feta, namely that the curved >> > centre line of its treble clef _does_ make it look to me as if it's >> > leaning over backward

Re: Alternative music font

2009-11-01 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-11-01, Neil Puttock wrote: > 2009/11/1 Patrick McCarty : > > On 2009-11-01, Neil Puttock wrote: > > > This is what I saw before reversing the settings (my latest commit), > > and now everything loads fine for me. > > Same here, but I can't see why you need to set font-defaults twice; > su

Re: Alternative music font

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/11/1 Patrick McCarty : > On 2009-11-01, Neil Puttock wrote: > This is what I saw before reversing the settings (my latest commit), > and now everything loads fine for me. Same here, but I can't see why you need to set font-defaults twice; surely the first setting is ignored? Regards, Neil

Re: Alternative music font

2009-11-01 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-11-01, Neil Puttock wrote: > 2009/10/29 Patrick McCarty : > > > This isn't entirely true, now that I look at it again.  In this case, > > gonville, gonville-brace, and aybabtu are all loaded, but aybabtu is > > used for the braces. > > Are you sure about the extra font-defaults setting?

Re: Alternative music font

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/29 Patrick McCarty : > This isn't entirely true, now that I look at it again.  In this case, > gonville, gonville-brace, and aybabtu are all loaded, but aybabtu is > used for the braces. Thanks for fixing this, Patrick; now I can compare and contrast the ugliness of the braces at large po

Re: Alternative music font

2009-11-01 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-28, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On 2009-10-28, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > On 2009-10-28, Neil Puttock wrote: > > > 2009/10/20 Neil Puttock : > > > > 2009/10/20 Patrick McCarty : > > > > > > > >> This should be fixed now in latest git. > > > > > > > > Works for me. > > > > > > I guess I spo

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-28, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On 2009-10-28, Neil Puttock wrote: > > 2009/10/20 Neil Puttock : > > > 2009/10/20 Patrick McCarty : > > > > > >> This should be fixed now in latest git. > > > > > > Works for me. > > > > I guess I spoke a bit prematurely here, since the fix you pushed > > al

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-28 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-28, Neil Puttock wrote: > 2009/10/20 Neil Puttock : > > 2009/10/20 Patrick McCarty : > > > >> This should be fixed now in latest git. > > > > Works for me. > > I guess I spoke a bit prematurely here, since the fix you pushed > always loads aybabtu, even when font-defaults has been redef

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-28 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/20 Neil Puttock : > 2009/10/20 Patrick McCarty : > >> This should be fixed now in latest git. > > Works for me. I guess I spoke a bit prematurely here, since the fix you pushed always loads aybabtu, even when font-defaults has been redefined. I've tried amending the code to allow switching

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: > Wow too. > Actually, there are things in Feta what I don't feel natural either. > For example: the caesura sign, the G-clef and the trill indication feels > better for me in Gonville. > Though the G-clef is I think a clear Lil

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 20-10-2009 om 14:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > I generate trivial Postscript describing > a lot of overlapping nib shapes moving round the curves, call > Ghostscript to render to a bitmap Ah, I see. > Ghostscript is the major consumer of

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 20-10-2009 om 09:47 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Patrick McCarty: > On 2009-10-20, Francisco Vila wrote: > > 2009/10/20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > > Drawing systems.../usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.6/scm/font.scm:167:29: > > In procedure string-replace in expression (string-replace > > "emm

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/20 Patrick McCarty : > This should be fixed now in latest git. Works for me. One little niggle remains: there are two grobs with font-family set to 'music (AmbitusAccidental and Clef), which means they ignore the font-family change unless it's explicitly set (i.e., \override Staff.Clef #

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-20, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2009/10/20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > > See > > > >     > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=c56ba7b4abd3b27e96367ea04b37f2e1d3b77663 > > After this change, piano braces do not work. Would it require a > complete font build? > >

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > See > >     > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=c56ba7b4abd3b27e96367ea04b37f2e1d3b77663 After this change, piano braces do not work. Would it require a complete font build? Drawing systems.../usr/local/share/lilypond/2.13.6/scm/fo

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Simon Tatham
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > is a bit problematic. We do not want to ship font binaries, but > I suppose we also do not want to add half an hour build time. > > I guess you feel the same: it would really be nice if you found > a way to reduce the font build time :-) Absolutely! The half hour is

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 20:49 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Jan Nieuwenhuizen: Hi Simon, > Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon > Tatham: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > > All I'd suggest is trivial changes to Lilypond to make it easy to > > use an alternative fon

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread demery
> it would be nicer if Lilypond itself could centre the digits >> around the 2nd and 4th lines of the stave in the case >> where they're smaller than 2*staff_spacing > > Be sure to consider non-5-line staff situations. Character glyph could be raised above the baseline using a seperate coding poi

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > This one has only taken me a couple of months (including some > initial thought about how to get nice-looking curves without an > excessive amount of manual specification). Great. Are you willi

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon > Tatham: >> (I hope this reply to the list works. > > I think not, you'll have to subscribe. If this helps, I did receive Simon's earlier mail on the list. (Perhaps he's

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Tatham
(I hope this reply to the list works. I had to post my previous message through the Gmane interface, but if I have to post this one the same way, I won't be able to get the In-Reply-To header to work properly.) Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Wow. You created a full font? That must have taken quite

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Wow too. Actually, there are things in Feta what I don't feel natural either. For example: the caesura sign, the G-clef and the trill indication feels better for me in Gonville. Though the G-clef is I think a clear LilyPond watermark, so I would keep that one :) The best would be if I could set

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Tatham writes: > I may yet make another attempt at redesigning the multiple flags. > The intention was to have them all essentially similar in shape Why? What do you gain by smaller note values essentially making a spread-out regular rectangular black pattern across the page rather than b

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Although I greatly prefer the Feta font to Gonville, I'm very much enjoying this thread — kudos to Simon and Jan for all their hard and considered work! it doesn't seem surprising to me that one answer doesn't satisfy everybody's tastes! Agreed — this is one of the great(est) be

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Tatham
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Wow. You created a full font? That must have taken quite some time! > I think Feta took Han-Wen and me something between one and two > man-years of work. This one has only taken me a couple of months (including some initial thought about how to get nice-looking curve

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: > (I hope this reply to the list works. I think not, you'll have to subscribe. > I had to post my previous > message through the Gmane interface, but if I have to post this one > the same way, I won't be able to get the I

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 08:15 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Simon Tatham: Hi Simon, I've recently drawn a new font of musical symbols for use with > Lilypond, which look more like the ones I'm used to and hence > distract me less. I put it up on the web this weekend at > > http://www.chiark.g

Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Tatham
Hi, I've recently drawn a new font of musical symbols for use with Lilypond, which look more like the ones I'm used to and hence distract me less. I put it up on the web this weekend at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/ Currently the only way I've found to use that font wit