On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:47:41AM +0200, Élie Roux wrote: > > I haven't until now, the modern one looks very nice and contains lots of > > glyphs, though various needed are still missing (e.g. in author's naming > > terminology distrol, bivirl, virstre, the two special forms of pes quassus > > which look like pes quadratus (and pes quadratus liquescens) with oriscus > > attached to it (pq5 and pq6 shapes in my font), I miss one liquescens clivis > > shape (cl11 shape in my font), various pressus shapes (melody alt form with > > ~ gravis instead of punctum for both maior and minor, liquescens forms for > > both minor and maior), some torculus modifications of shape, perhaps > > scandicus with three punctis (virga pretripunctis, scpppv ?), various > > salicus forms, trigonus alt form (tg2), two trigonus modifications of the > > mark (ones I haven't found either), trigonus melody modified, and all the > > letter significativa (even in modern look form using just ordinary > > contemporary alphabetic font is going to look weird, especially if some > > letters in manuscripts were written differently (e.g. s) and various > > sequences had special glyphs (e.g. statim vs. sursum tenere). If the font > > has say all the 40+ alphabetic signs (some of them can be constructed by > > just combining, but lots of them can't), then perhaps the font should also > > contain the most common letter adjuncted neumes (I mean the celeriter, > > tenete, tenete + episema, celeriter + tenete, expectare and frendor > > adjuncted neumes at least from Cardine's table). Is there a newer version > > of the modern (or ancient) font? > > No, that's all there is for the modern font, Sr Maria started to improve > the ancient font (which most people seemed to prefer), but I'm not sure > she had a lot of time...
The SGMod.otf from above still contains "(c) 2011 Association Saint-Benoit, Notre-Dame de Bellaigue, FR 63330 VIRLET" and no signs of OTF license, do you have a copy of the font with the OTF added to it or just permission to add it there? Also, is the SGMod.otf the ultimate source that can be used, or is there some *.sfd or *.mf or whatever? It would be nice to have both modern and ancient fonts use the same character assignments, shall we use what SGMod has and just add the missing stuff to that at new code points, or something else (in my font I've temporarily reserved 32 characters per variations of each neume kind, because until it is at least close to complete I didn't want to guess how many glyphs I'll be able to get). Also, is there a source for TestSGModern.pdf, or shall we in the end just create some TeX table with all the glyphs plus their nabc description? > Ok good! These are released under the OFL, so if you release yours too, > you can take glyphs from them! They're here for that... The idea of > having several free fonts is to make them improve with each other... > what do you think? Sure. Though the Cardine font is in metafont originally, while I've been using the (admittedly low quality, just from the mostly ~ 16Mpx scans, so about 25 to 150 pixels high characters) and fontographer only. So if it is mixed and matched, either I would have to repaint everything in metafont, or we'd just import some glyphs from Cardine font and use fontforge as the source. > > Perhaps it is different page in the French original? I've been using (well, > > just in the last 14 days of the evening work) the English translation, > > before that just Graduale Triplex and the manuscripts (plus occassional > > look at Antiphonale Monasticum, Nocturnale Romanum, Offertoriale Triplex), > > and the lettera significativa often with help of a diploma thesis (in czech) > > I found at http://theses.cz/id/9b10pv/96548-338988687.pdf (pp141-142). > > Thanks for the link, though Czech is Czech to me :) Yeah, though important info there is hopefully readable to anyone (picture, latin name and GT or OT reference where to find it). Jakub _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
