Nice work Pierre! This is great. I look forward to taking a closer look. Cheers, -Paul
> On Apr 15, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Pierre Perol-Schneider > <pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi List, > > Tonight I'd like to share with you some tools I'm experimenting for a couple > of weeks that can ease to make drawings with the 'path' command. > > Almost everyone here uses postscript images when a new glyph is needed. But > it may causes some issues (no svg, some overrides are not possible e.g. > color...) > So why not using 'path'? > > For sure, when I first put my eyes here (scroll down until 'samplePath'): > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/graphic.fr.html > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/graphic.fr.html> with > its weird fight glove glyph it looked a little mysterious. But after many > trials and with some self-made tools to help me finding the right coordinates > it revealed that it's a pretty powerful toy. > And a recent conversation made me think that maybe I could re-think and > enhanced those tools and shared them with you. So, here we go! > > The idea is to use LP and your favorite editor as a cad. > So please find herewith "graphPaper.ily" and an unfinished example to show > you how my glyphs are constructed. > Basically, all you need is knowing how to find coordinates on a graph, > combining an original glyph behind the graph paper and follow the lines with > the specific path commands: moveto, lineto, curveto, closepath (note that I > only use absolute coordinates). > "graphPaper.ily" includes a graph paper ("1" equivalent to the distance > between 2 staff lines) and ready to use tangents to help you to choose the > right Bézier coordinates. > I also put lots of comments in the example. Please feel free to ask if > anythings' unclear or badly explained. > > Waiting for your comments, > Cheers, > Pierre > > PS. Recent path examples added to the LSR: > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=991 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=991> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=989 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=989> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=988 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=988> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=987 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=987> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=986 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=986> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=984 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=984> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=982 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=982> (with absolute coordinates, LP has > already one with relatives') > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=973 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=973> (pseudo stems) > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=904 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=904> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=900 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=900> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=890 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=890> > > If you're still interested after this toooo-long list, Paul's specific > snippet are very helpful too: > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=891 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=891> > - http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=623 > <http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=623> > > > <graph-paper.ily><256up.pdf><256up.ly>_______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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