Thanks for that info about esmuflily, I will try that for SMuFL fonts, which I have a few and that sounds like it will be the way of the future.
One thing that is not clear to me is what fonts are actually in the old school lilypond format. I get that there is the built in font set called emmentaler, which supposedly has several different fonts embedded within feta and something else..a little unclear. Then there is the bmusicfont, which appears to be some older version of Bravura that was converted to lilypond format in some way. Their own readme says they recommend to use newer version of Bravura as SMuFL using esmuflily rather then the old way, but at any rate its an example of an actual font that is available in the older lilypond font format. I will probably try to use esmuflily though. Are there any other fonts in the original lilypond format? Here are the others I managed to obtain from GitHub, which I guess must be SMuFL fonts after all, provided by Abraham before he switched over to MTF commercial project, or maybe some were not from him, its not clear but somehow through following lilypond google searching I found the following fonts, which all appear to be SMuFL, I think, not sure yet: Beethoven, cadence, gonville, gutenberg1939, haydn, improviso, lilyboulez, lilyjazz, lv-goldenage, paganini, profondo, ross, scorlatti, sebastiano So I am not sure which of those were Abraham’s but is it true that they were left behind as SMuFL versions or was there an actual native lilypond version at some point? I have seen various references to some fonts that started life as lilypond and were later converted to finale or SMuFL formats. It’s all kind of unclear to me. But if the future is going to be to base things on SMuFL in general, even if using esmuflily in the short run to use them, I will try to hunt down the SMuFL fonts. I own a number of SMuFL fonts which I have purchased also, including the MTF fonts, which probably I should use those instead of the old ones I found on GitHub. Probably makes sense to use newest version of Bravura too, even the readme.m <http://readme.me/>d from bmusicfont is recommending that. > > If you're interested in Bravura specifically, it's probably easiest to just > use BMusicFont instead. Gonville is another font option, it seems to be still > maintained. Gonville is lilypont format or SMuFL? > > Another possibility you should be aware of: it's easy to swap out portions of > the music font for other fonts if there's something particular from those > fonts that you like. Like clefs, accidentals, flags, articulations, > noteheads, etc. Like Cadence clefs, Beethoven noteheads, Gonville sharps and > flats... > Thanks for that. At some point I will probably try to do something like that as often times I don’t like the clefs included even though I like other aspects of certain fonts. At some point I very well may try to put together my own hybrid setup that gets the house style I like I’m not there yet, save that discussion for another time.
