[abcusers] Renaissance fonts and Abc

[Forgeot Eric]

I've begun to make a true type font for renaissance music, and I
hope to adapt it soon for Abcm2ps, or other applications. 
It can be useful to recreate historical manuscripts, like the
Playford one and those of the Village Music Project.

The problem is that I can't extract fonts used by abcm2ps because
it's not like Abctab2ps which use type 1 fonts. I haven't tried
yet to adapt it for Abctab2ps but I think those separated fonts
are only for the tablature, and for the partition it seems to use
fonts located in syms.c like Abcm2ps.
If someone is interested in helping to developp this project, the
fonts (in several formats) are at :

http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaissance_fonts.html

There are also comparation between an original manuscript (a tune
from Orchesography) and an abc tunes with this font. It doesn't
look so bad (it's cleaner but it's quite the same). But it won't
work for every tune at the moment.

How were designed the fonts in the abc to postscript applications
? And how could I made the necessary changes to make them work for
other applications ?
I've used pfaedit (http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/) in order to
convert my vectorial drawings into font.



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Re: [abcusers] Renaissance fonts and Abc

[Frank Nordberg]

Forgeot Eric wrote:
 
 I've begun to make a true type font for renaissance music,...

Great work, Eric. Any chance of a Mac version? I used to have a program
for porting TrueType fonts between MAc and Windows, but it seems I've
mislaid it.


Frank Nordberg
http://www,musicaviva.com
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Re: [abcusers] Renaissance fonts and Abc

[John McChesney-Young]

Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I used to have a program
for porting TrueType fonts between MAc and Windows, but it seems I've
mislaid it.

TT Converter usually works for Windows-to-Mac:

http://www.acidfonts.com/fontutilities.htm

I've used it with about 80% success, but it may work more reliably with
fonts less weird than the ones I've tried it on.

John

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