Re: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid)
Am 08.02.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that (partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/), including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… ;) http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf Hm, I don't find this so awesome, tends to be not so readable ;-) And it seems to encourage making errors or mixing staves (e.g. writing articulations between staves without clear attribution ;-) Urs Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid)
Am 8. Februar 2015 21:56:28 MEZ, schrieb tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com: Conor, et. al., Looking closely at the score, I don't believe the staff lines are pre-fixed at all, since I can see variable spacing. I can't say for anything beyond the one page in the pdf, of course. My experience tells me that LilyPond can manage just about anything I throw at it :) As for making the font, it wouldn't be that difficult. Create missing glyphs will be relatively easy since it's a hand-writing style, so I wouldn't need a lot of reference material. It would take some time and work, however, so if there's enough interest in it, some financial sponsoring would be very helpful, though not required. Cool idea, Kieren! Where is this sample from? Here's the whole thing: Http://beautifulscores.net/fried/fullscore.pdf -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Conor Cook [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n171621...@n5.nabble.com wrote: It looks like an extremely neat handwritten score, but probably written on staves that were already set, space-wise. I wonder if it could be modified for the purposes of Lilypond, while retaining its distinct features. ~Conor -- Forwarded message -- From: Kieren MacMillan [hidden email] To: Urs Liska [hidden email], Abraham Lee [hidden email] Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List [hidden email] Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 11:25:13 -0500 Subject: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid) Hi Urs, I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that (partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/), including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… ;) http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: [hidden email] -- Forwarded message -- From: Urs Liska [hidden email] To: Kieren MacMillan [hidden email], Abraham Lee [hidden email] Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List [hidden email] Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:43:37 +0100 Subject: Re: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid) Am 08.02.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that (partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/), including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… ;) http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf Hm, I don't find this so awesome, tends to be not so readable ;-) And it seems to encourage making errors or mixing staves (e.g. writing articulations between staves without clear attribution ;-) Urs Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: [hidden email] ___ lilypond-user mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/new-font-was-Re-Gridly-simple-Segmented-Grid-tp171621.html To start a new topic under User, email ml-node+s1069038n...@n5.nabble.com To unsubscribe from Lilypond, click here. NAML -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/new-font-was-Re-Gridly-simple-Segmented-Grid-tp171621p171623.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid)
Conor, et. al., Looking closely at the score, I don't believe the staff lines are pre-fixed at all, since I can see variable spacing. I can't say for anything beyond the one page in the pdf, of course. My experience tells me that LilyPond can manage just about anything I throw at it :) As for making the font, it wouldn't be that difficult. Create missing glyphs will be relatively easy since it's a hand-writing style, so I wouldn't need a lot of reference material. It would take some time and work, however, so if there's enough interest in it, some financial sponsoring would be very helpful, though not required. Cool idea, Kieren! Where is this sample from? -Abraham Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Conor Cook [via Lilypond] ml-node+s1069038n171621...@n5.nabble.com wrote: It looks like an extremely neat handwritten score, but probably written on staves that were already set, space-wise. I wonder if it could be modified for the purposes of Lilypond, while retaining its distinct features. ~Conor -- Forwarded message -- From: Kieren MacMillan [hidden email] To: Urs Liska [hidden email], Abraham Lee [hidden email] Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List [hidden email] Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 11:25:13 -0500 Subject: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid) Hi Urs, I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that (partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/), including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… ;) http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: [hidden email] -- Forwarded message -- From: Urs Liska [hidden email] To: Kieren MacMillan [hidden email], Abraham Lee [hidden email] Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List [hidden email] Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:43:37 +0100 Subject: Re: new font? (was Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid) Am 08.02.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that (partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/), including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… ;) http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf Hm, I don't find this so awesome, tends to be not so readable ;-) And it seems to encourage making errors or mixing staves (e.g. writing articulations between staves without clear attribution ;-) Urs Cheers, Kieren. ___ Kieren MacMillan, composer www: http://www.kierenmacmillan.info email: [hidden email] ___ lilypond-user mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/new-font-was-Re-Gridly-simple-Segmented-Grid-tp171621.html To start a new topic under User, email ml-node+s1069038n...@n5.nabble.com To unsubscribe from Lilypond, click here. NAML -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/new-font-was-Re-Gridly-simple-Segmented-Grid-tp171621p171623.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
