Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-18 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Till" == Till Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Till> Couldn't they be converted to otf and then used easyly via the system Till> installation for fonts or then included into lily as a Till> choice. Actually how did Laura Conrad use her "Fraktur" fonts in Till> LilyPond?

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Whatever you do, *please* follow the guidelines in mf/README > > (almost all ancient glyphs don't do that, unfortunately). An > > `exact' conversion would be really cool! > > > Well, I don't really know yet anything about font design myself > except maybe the point that ttf/otf fonts have a wi

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-17 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have realized that you have to learn MetaFont to be able to implement the fonts (at least if you want them included in the distribution). /Mats ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-17 Thread Till Rettig
Juergen Reuter wrote: Agreed. I have been mainly concentrating on Vaticana style and Petrucci style. As Werner already indicated, the ancient font was written before Lily used fontforge et al. Therefore, the glyphs do not follow all prerequisites that Lily glyphs are nowadays supposed to

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-17 Thread Till Rettig
Karl Hammar wrote: Great! Is your goal, like Guthenburg, to make a few e's etc, to simulate the variability of handwriting also? Would that be possible within lilypond? Well, I don't know yet -- it would definitely be userfull for the samples taken from handwritten fonts. But what rules ap

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-17 Thread Till Rettig
Werner LEMBERG wrote: I was wondering if I could start some contribution to the medieval notation support via redesigning the fonts that in my opinion don't look very good. [...] I can't give any design recommendation due to lack of knowledge. Whatever you do, *please* follow the guidel

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-17 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Till Rettig wrote: Hei, I was wondering if I could start some contribution to the medieval notation support That would be great! via redesigning the fonts that in my opinion don't look very good. Especially referring to the mensural notehead style (I think the petrucci

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-16 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I was wondering if I could start some contribution to the medieval > notation support via redesigning the fonts that in my opinion don't look > very good. Especially referring to the mensural notehead style (I think ... Great! Is your goal, like Guthenburg, to make a few e's

Re: Lilypond font design

2007-01-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I was wondering if I could start some contribution to the medieval > notation support via redesigning the fonts that in my opinion don't > look very good. [...] I can't give any design recommendation due to lack of knowledge. Whatever you do, *please* follow the guidelines in mf/README (almost

Lilypond font design

2007-01-16 Thread Till Rettig
Hei, I was wondering if I could start some contribution to the medieval notation support via redesigning the fonts that in my opinion don't look very good. Especially referring to the mensural notehead style (I think the petrucci looks quite fine, but neomensural and mensural heads are lot too sm