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) benefits of open source
software. In that spirit, I know that many people out there would
love a font which looks handwritten — maybe once Gonville is
integrated, you (Simon) could provide an API documentation patch, so
that others might contribute/integrate their alternative fonts?
One comment from a friend about the difference between the two fonts
was that a thing he liked about Gonville was that it looked more
modern.
As you said, this will be a matter of taste — I much prefer the more
traditional look of Feta to anything out there (Gonville or Igor
Engraver's font or Finale's or Sibelius's or...).
Of course, I also maintain that number theory reached its apex
sometime between Fermat and Euler, so take that as you may... ;)
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. Gonville's straight-backed version feels
much more balanced to me.
You could probably just rotate that glyph in a TimeSignature
override, if you wanted. ;)
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.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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