Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice
I want to write some editorial notes which will be mostly free-form test but will include some musical symbols (dynamics, notes). A word processor (I use Libre office) is easiest for the text, but how do I include the musical symbols? Is the Feta font available to use - it doesn't appear in my Windows font list? Regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice
Am 26.11.19 um 12:45 schrieb Peter Toye: I want to write some editorial notes which will be mostly free-form test but will include some musical symbols (dynamics, notes). A word processor (I use Libre office) is easiest for the text, but how do I include the musical symbols? Is the Feta font available to use - it doesn't appear in my Windows font list? You could try “Bravura Text”. It has the same symbols as the notation font “Bravura” but with metrics suitable for including symbols in text.
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)
- Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 2:36:16 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:54:46 +0100 > From: Malte Meyn > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice > Message-ID: > <82b8ed86-fa6c-19bc-1188-17aff7a02...@maltemeyn.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Am 26.11.19 um 12:45 schrieb Peter Toye: >> I want to write some editorial notes which will be mostly free-form test >> but will include some musical symbols (dynamics, notes). A word >> processor (I use Libre office) is easiest for the text, but how do I >> include the musical symbols? Is the Feta font available to use - it >> doesn't appear in my Windows font list? > You could try “Bravura Text”. It has the same > symbols as the notation > font “Bravura” but with metrics suitable for > including symbols in text. > -- Sorry for the late reply - I didn't see it as I wasn't on the recipients list! Bravura sounds like a good idea, except that I'm trying to work out how to get it. It seems that I have to download something (but the readme file doesn't exactly say what) from github and then install it using a proprietary installer which I've had to search for. Not very good marketing here! I may try to use \markuplist instead, but that raises further issues - for another mailing list request for help. Thanks for the help. Peter
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)
Am 27.11.19 um 12:58 schrieb Peter Toye: Bravura sounds like a good idea, except that I'm trying to work out how to get it. It seems that I have to download something (but the readme file doesn't exactly say what) from github and then install it using a proprietary installer which I've had to search for. Not very good marketing here! I agree, it’s not easy to find. I have it installed though (on Linux) and I’m pretty sure that I downloaded it from the Steinberg website without installers … Why would you even want an executable (?) installer for something as simple as a font?
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)
Am 27.11.19 um 13:52 schrieb Malte Meyn: Am 27.11.19 um 12:58 schrieb Peter Toye: Bravura sounds like a good idea, except that I'm trying to work out how to get it. It seems that I have to download something (but the readme file doesn't exactly say what) from github and then install it using a proprietary installer which I've had to search for. Not very good marketing here! I agree, it’s not easy to find. I have it installed though (on Linux) and I’m pretty sure that I downloaded it from the Steinberg website without installers … Why would you even want an executable (?) installer for something as simple as a font? Shortly after writing this I realised that the font files can be found in the github repository, but in the subdirectory redist.
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)
- Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 12:52:52 PM, Malte Meyn wrote: > I agree, it’s not easy to find. I have it > installed though (on Linux) > and I’m pretty sure that I downloaded it from the Steinberg website > without installers … Why would you even want an > executable (?) installer > for something as simple as a font? Don't ask me - I just went to the download link at http://www.smufl.org/fonts/ :) I'll try the Steinberg site - thanks for the pointer.
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Peter Toye wrote: Don't ask me - I just went to the download link at http://www.smufl.org/fonts/ :) I'll try the Steinberg site - thanks for the pointer. Inspired by this thread I found out that on my Linux Fedora system I can simply install the Steinberg Bravura fonts from the Fedora repository: sudo dnf install steinberg-bravura-fonts sudo dnf install steinberg-bravura-text-fonts I did some searching in the Fedora repo, and also found some other options for musical symbols: dnf search music font google-noto-music-fonts.noarch : Music font gdouros-musica-fonts.noarch : A font for musical symbols denemo-music-fonts.noarch : Denemo Denemo fonts === Samenvatting & Naam Komt overeen met: music, font === steinberg-bravura-fonts.noarch : Bravura music font steinberg-bravura-text-fonts.noarch : Bravura music text font allgeyer-musisync-fonts.noarch : A musical notation font family that provides general musical decorations allgeyer-musiqwik-fonts.noarch : A musical notation font family intended for writing lines of actual music == Samenvatting Komt overeen met: music, font === texlive-figbas.noarch : Mini-fonts for figured-bass notation in music So you could also search for and try those google, gdouros, and allgeyer fonts. They also should be downloadable for free for everyone somewhere. (They can't be included in the Fedora repos if they aren't.) -- MT
Re: Availability of music notation font in LibreOffice (Malte Meyn)
Also available in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), currently at otf-bravura version 1.271-1 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf-bravura But, if you're an Arch user, you probably figured all that out for yourself, making this message a bit redundant. ;-)