Op maandag 21 januari 2008, schreef Thies Albrecht: > Hi everybody! > > Currently I'm dealing with extending/altering lily's music font > according to my needs. Now I'm stuck with the following: > > I want to alter a symbol, e.g. the notehead noteheads.s2. To do so I > open feta20.pfa from /usr/share/lilypond/2.10.5/fonts/type1 in FontForge > (v20061220), choose symbol noteheads.s2 by double-clicking on it, alter > it, close the window and then by choosing File -> Generate Fonts... -> > PS Type 1 (Ascii) save it again to .../type1/feta20.pfa. When I process > a file containing for example > > \relative c'' {c4 d e f} > > I still get the old notehead symbol. > > Why doesn't the altered symbol appear? Can anyone give me a hint/link? > Are there any other steps I have to do? Is it somehow not that easy as I > think it is to alter/extend the existing font?
From what I understand the *pfa files are generated files, and depending on desired font size, a symbol is taken from one *pfa or another. If I'm correct, to alter a symbol the best way is to alter the *.mf files in mf/ (mf=metafont). Met vriendelijke groet, Wilbert Berendsen -- http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/ "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandi _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user