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