Joram,
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Noeck <noeck.marb...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Abraham,
thanks for your reply.
\version "2.19.14"
\transpose c c'
{
% default (Century Schoolbook)
\tuplet 3/2 { a8 a a }
% bold (Century Schoolbook) - closer to Bravura
\override TupletNumber.font-series = #'bold
\tuplet 3/2 { a a a }
% from Emmentaler (bold numbers) - your suggestion
\override TupletNumber.font-encoding = #'fetaText
\override TupletNumber.font-size = #-4
\tuplet 3/2 { a a a }
% tuplet number from Bravura (U+E883) - what I wanted!
\override TupletNumber.font-name = "Bravura"
\override TupletNumber.font-size = #3.5
\override TupletNumber #'text = "ξΆƒ"
\tuplet 3/2 { a a a }
}
This example shows four different tuplet numbers. The last one is
what I
wanted: the dedicated Bravura tuplet number on code point U+E883.
To achieve that I had to put Bravura in /usr/share/fonts. I was
wondering why installing it under Ubuntu does not work and copying
into
/usr/share/fonts of the LP directory structure does not work, neither.
From my experience, LP only looks for Century Schoolbook and the
music/brace fonts in that folder. Any other text font should be
installed in a regular system location. On Ubuntu, if you put Bravura
in "/home/YOUR_USER_NAME/.local/share/fonts", then you should be able
to do what you tried above (manually, of course).
A real solution would be if this number would be calculated
automatically. But I couldn't get it to work:
\override TupletNumber #'text = #(integer->char
(+ 59520 (tuplet-number::calc-denominator-text)))
I am trying that out, because it would help to get a consistent style
for the new fonts including the text font part.
I agree. That is a great idea! I don't have enough Scheme experience to
know how to modify the text property like that, but that would
certainly be very nice. On the other hand, I could just create a simple
tuplet numerals file for your needs :) It would probably be better to
access the glyphs from the complete Bravura font file, but sometimes
you've got to take measures into your own hands and try something
simpler. I doubt Steinberg will ever be changing those glyphs, so it's
probably a safe bet.
2) Do you or does anyone know text fonts similar to the ones used
in
many old scores, like here:
http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7f/IMSLP00115-Chopin_-_Ballade_No1.pdf
I've often looked for some nice fonts like those. A nice one I've
found
is called "OldStandardTT". It's free and supports an extensive
character
set including Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/old-standard-TT
Just to share what I found yesterday:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain
But I am not really convinced (there are some irregularities e.g. in
the
letter a).
Yeah, that one looks nice, but I agree that it's not as well
constructed as we would like.
Regards,
Abraham
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