Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-05 Thread Marco Baumgartner
*** www.marcobaumgartner.com On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 4:14 AM Marco Baumgartner wrote: > > Hi Kieren, > > oh my! > Guess what? I'm running 2.19.83 now! Thank you so much! > And: Ligatures working like they should! > > The question on how to install an unstable version

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-05 Thread Marco Baumgartner
Hi Kieren, oh my! Guess what? I'm running 2.19.83 now! Thank you so much! And: Ligatures working like they should! The question on how to install an unstable version was offtopic - and yet, it totally solved my problem with ligatures. Thank you so much for your help! I now can start on creating

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-05 Thread Marco Baumgartner
.marcobaumgartner.com On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:11 AM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2019-07-05 5:34 pm, Marco Baumgartner wrote: > > the output of: > > > > \markup \roman "fi" > > > > is in the attachment. It does not produce the ligatures - both in > > s

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-05 Thread Marco Baumgartner
in the standard-repository in this updated version, so I've installed the generic package "2.18.2" from lilypond.org. *** www.marcobaumgartner.com On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 12:35 PM Marco Baumgartner wrote: > Thanks Aaron for your help! > > > \version "2.18.2&qu

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-05 Thread Marco Baumgartner
artner.com On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:45 PM Tyler Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 03:29:00PM +0200, Marco Baumgartner wrote: > > Although my font (otf) HAS ligatures (and show up if the font is > > used on my system in other programs) - it doesn't show ANY > > li

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-05 Thread Marco Baumgartner
er unstable version. Now I can't re-install 2.18.2 from Debian repository as it's missing. Let me figure this out. I'll let you know, when I'm back with a running version and tested the above code. *** www.marcobaumgartner.com On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:33 PM Aaron Hill w

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-04 Thread Marco Baumgartner
Thanks, Aaron. I really feel like creating a whole new font. The problem I'm facing right now is: I can use my self-made otf fonts as markup. If I use the same font as ChordNames, it seems like ChordNames is dictating what's a valid entry and what isn't. That's the minor issue (I still think, disp

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-03 Thread Marco Baumgartner
f I use my own font - that's just that? That would be awesome. *** www.marcobaumgartner.com On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:54 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2019-07-03 10:40 am, Marco Baumgartner wrote: > > One thought though: As far as I understand it: displaying chords within > >

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-03 Thread Marco Baumgartner
*** www.marcobaumgartner.com On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:40 PM Marco Baumgartner wrote: > Thank you, Elaine. > I'm on the road, but I'll gladly check it out later! > > One thought though: As far as I understand it: displaying chords within > Lilypond is not done with/by a &

Re: Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-03 Thread Marco Baumgartner
mpletely out? :-) On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 19:26 Flaming Hakama by Elaine < ela...@flaminghakama.com> wrote: > - Forwarded message ------ >> From: Marco Baumgartner >> To: lilypond-user@gnu.org >> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 14:27:27 +0200 >> Subject: Jazz Chor

Jazz Chord Symbols (as new font - NOT notation font)

2019-07-03 Thread Marco Baumgartner
Hi, I wonder how I had to build a "normal" font (otf, ttf, whatever) to work as chord-symbols-font only. Spacing and style is very important to make chord symbols readable. I haven't seen one yet for lilypond. Goal is to have a font rendering chord symbols like in the real books (handwritten or no

How to set up a Jazz-Chord-Symbol-Font (not notation-font)

2019-07-03 Thread Marco Baumgartner
Hi, I wonder how I had to build a "normal" font (otf, ttf, whatever) to work as chord-symbols-font only. Spacing and style is very important to make chord symbols readable. I haven't seen one yet for lilypond. Goal is to have a font rendering chord symbols like in the real books (handwritten or no