Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2014-07-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.07.2014 23:08, schrieb tisimst: BTW, I've tried contacting Torsten again to see if he has a licensing preference for LilyJAZZ and LilyJAZZText (OFL, GPL, or whatever). Waiting to hear back now, though based on others' comments, he may be out of reach since last year. Yes, that seems to be

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2014-07-23 Thread tisimst
Keith OHara wrote > Torsten Hämmerle > > web.de> writes: > >> I've attached a zip file containing the current (albeit unfinished) >> versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text font plus the >> corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include. > >> The main obstacle is the rigid way Lilypond handles

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-06-21 Thread Keith OHara
Torsten Hämmerle web.de> writes: > I've attached a zip file containing the current (albeit unfinished) > versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text font plus the > corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include. > The main obstacle is the rigid way Lilypond handles its (her, his?) > internal music

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-20 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 14 March 2013 11:36, "Torsten Hämmerle" wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just noticed the my last mail didn't get through to the list for some > reason. Well, here it is again in a second attempt: > > In the first place: I've attached a zip file containing the current (albeit > unfinished) versions

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-19 Thread Tim McNamara
There are a couple of peculiar side effects. I find that using this turns off the bar count engraver and it also defeats \improvisationOn resulting in regular notes instead of parallelogram note heads. The easy workaround is to use \jazzOff before \improvisationOn. The appearance of the stems

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-19 Thread Denis Bitouzé
Le jeudi 14/03/13 à 11h36, "Torsten Hämmerle" a écrit : > here it is again in a second attempt:In the first place: I've > attached a zip file containing the current (albeit unfinished) > versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text font plus the > corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include.As an exam

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-17 Thread Johan Vromans
Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > No, the look of a font isn’t copyrighted, but the name is sometimes a > trademark - that’s why a lot of lookalikes exist whose names point to > the original, like "Zurich" or "Swiss" for "Helvetica". http://design-milk.com/images/2011/02/my-name-is-helvetica.jpg --

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > But some even use (more or less) the same metrics, like URW Nimbus > Sans [...] Using the same metrics is on purpose, so the font can be used as a free drop-in replacement for the original but copyrighted font. -- Johan ___

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-03-16 um 00:29 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: >> Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: >> >>> This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in >>> LilyPond, >>> though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their >>> Swing font. >>> I was still wonde

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their Swing font. I was still wondering if there won't be a

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 15, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: > >> Hi Torsten, >> >> first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! >> Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that >> sheets get more difficult to

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 16:49, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, On 2013-Mar-15, at 11:42, Urs Liska wrote: AFAIK the only way (except creating a pango-font-ree) is to redefine booktitlemarkup and/or scoretitlemarkup from scratch to be able to access the font settings for these items (as \markups) Um

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, On 2013-Mar-15, at 11:42, Urs Liska wrote: > AFAIK the only way (except creating a pango-font-ree) is to redefine > booktitlemarkup and/or scoretitlemarkup from scratch to be able to access the > font settings for these items (as \markups) Um… doesn't everyone do this for all their sco

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.03.2013 16:38, schrieb Tim McNamara: On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more difficult to read in certain lightin

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Robert Schmaus wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! > Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that > sheets get more difficult to read in certain lighting conditions (I > assume you are a j

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-03-15 um 10:06 schrieb TaoCG: > This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, > though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their > Swing font. > I was still wondering if there won't be any license issues if the font is > redrawn ma

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread Robert Schmaus
Hi Torsten, first of all: This looks just amazing! Thanks for sharing it! Even though I like LilyPond's original typesetting a lot, I noticed that sheets get more difficult to read in certain lighting conditions (I assume you are a jazz musician as well and know what I mean ...). Especially for th

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-15 Thread TaoCG
This is all very interesting, I'd love to have a jazz style font in LilyPond, though I don't particularly like the Sigler Jazz font. I much prefer their Swing font. I was still wondering if there won't be any license issues if the font is redrawn manually since in the end everyone familiar with the

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Tim McNamara
On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:36 AM, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > > BUT: Even if all this may be quite an ambitious task, I just started off to > see what's possible and how Lilypond behaves in a jazz context. Fortunately, > the results look quite encouraging. :) This is very intriguing as a jazz player a

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:59 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > "Torsten Hämmerle" writes: > >> I'm just happy that in the meantime some "main actors" as David or >> even Jan seem to acknowledge the fact that Lilypond would certainly >> benefit from being able to produce "jazz output". > > It's not "just

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Noeck
Am 14.03.2013 15:38, schrieb David Kastrup: > Note spacing, beaming (!), system brackets and a few other things give > it away. The beaming is probably the worst offender regarding style > consistency. Would it be possible to use Bezier curves instead of straight lines for the beams? Some slight

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > Hi Torsten, > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, "Torsten Hämmerle" > wrote: >> I've attached a zip file containing the current (albeit >> unfinished) versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text font plus the >> corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include. >> As an example t

Aw: Re: Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 um 14:59 Uhr Von: "David Kastrup" It's not "just" Jazz. This is pretty much par for the course for Barbershop and quite a few other forms of vocal harmony. Interestingly, not for pop music. I also don't think it is used much for piano or other vertical

Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Torsten, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, "Torsten Hämmerle" wrote: > I've attached a zip file containing the current (albeit > unfinished) versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text font plus the > corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include. > As an example to demonstrate what's already there

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[please use plain text for your e-mails] > > What do you mean with `rigid'? > > Some things related to Feta/Emmentaler access are still being > handled deep inside non-public scheme coding or even C source code > and consequently very hard to tweak. Please open bug reports about those issues.

Aw: Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 um 11:53 Uhr Von: "David Kastrup" > I think what we want to arrive at is a way to drop in music fonts into > LilyPond in a tolerable workable way. I think that we can't avoid at> first the necessity of having the font, if not its glyphs, at least its>

Re: Aw: Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
"Torsten Hämmerle" writes: > I'm just happy that in the meantime some "main actors" as David or > even Jan seem to acknowledge the fact that Lilypond would certainly > benefit from being able to produce "jazz output". It's not "just" Jazz. This is pretty much par for the course for Barbershop a

Aw: Re: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Hi Werner,> What do you mean with `rigid'? Some things related to Feta/Emmentaler access are still being handled deep inside non-public scheme coding or even C source code and consequently very hard to tweak.Amongst the most "stubborn" stencils are multi measure rests where the glyph names are asse

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/3/14 David Kastrup : > We currently have three music fonts of more than marginal interest: > LilyPond's own Feta (?), ... Emmentaler. Of which Feta and Parmesan are subsets. But Parmesan is only for ancient, and Feta includes braces and everything, so I guess we can keep calling the standard

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In the first place: I've attached a zip file containing the current > (albeit unfinished) versions of the LilyJAZZ music and LilyJAZZ Text > font plus the corresponding LilyJAZZ.ily include. Very impressive! > The main obstacle is the rigid way Lilypond handles its (her, his?) > internal music

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Torsten, thank you very much for your work. This is great! While I probably won't use it ever for myself, I find that an extremely useful addition to LilyPond, and I hope you will get enough assistance to get it into LilyPond's default distribution. Best Urs Am 14.03.2013 11:36, schrieb

Re: Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
"Torsten Hämmerle" writes: > So finally: what have I done and why? The main obstacle is the rigid > way Lilypond handles its (her, his?) internal music font. I > deliberately decided to stick to an "ordinary" OTF/TTF font first to > learn how to use external fonts (who knows what it's good for)

Aw: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-12 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
1:50 Uhr Von: "Xavier Scheuer" An: "Thomas Morley" Cc: "David Kastrup" , lilypond-user@gnu.org Betreff: Re: Pseudo-handwritten font On 7 March 2013 21:52, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Earlier this day I informed the Aut

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-12 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 7 March 2013 21:52, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Earlier this day I informed the Author of it in the DLF (the german > LilyPond-Forum). > He answered already, reporting having made a lot of improvements and > posting a new image. > Though, no code, perhaps he will post the code here or in DLF, don'

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/7 Marc Hohl : > Am 07.03.2013 10:44, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > Wow, very impressive! >>> >>> I hate to admit it, >> >> Hehe :-) >> >>> but it looks like a game changer of strategic importance to me. I hope that this extension will find its way into the official lilypond r

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 07.03.2013 10:44, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Wow, very impressive! I hate to admit it, Hehe :-) but it looks like a game changer of strategic importance to me. I hope that this extension will find its way into the official lilypond releases... What needs to be done for this? I don't know,

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Klaus Föhl
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > I put quite some effort in supporting Gonville as an external > font, as at the time it took 5+ hours to build it and we did > not want to ship a font binary-only. Which is very much appreciated. As a user on Linux I do indeed change between feta and gonville, easy eno

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: >> Wow, very impressive! > > I hate to admit it, but it looks like a game changer of strategic > importance to me. People tend to pick LilyPond to get the best > typesetting. Yes. Wow. > What needs to be done for this? I put quite some effort in supporting Gonville as an

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Stjepan Horvat
It looks very good. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Marc Hohl writes: > >> Am 07.03.2013 00:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: >>> 2013/3/6 Shane Brandes : there was a jazz font patch somewhile ago. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-12/msg00290.html >

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Wow, very impressive! > > I hate to admit it, Hehe :-) > but it looks like a game changer of strategic importance to me. >> I hope that this extension will find its way into the official >> lilypond releases... > > What needs to be done for this? A good question. Do you have a contact e-

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl writes: > Am 07.03.2013 00:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: >> 2013/3/6 Shane Brandes : >>> there was a jazz font patch somewhile ago. >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-12/msg00290.html >> There is some currently unfinished work in the german forum. >> http://www.lilypo

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-07 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 07.03.2013 00:45, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2013/3/6 Shane Brandes : there was a jazz font patch somewhile ago. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-12/msg00290.html There is some currently unfinished work in the german forum. http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1218.0 B

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-06 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/3/6 Shane Brandes : > there was a jazz font patch somewhile ago. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-12/msg00290.html There is some currently unfinished work in the german forum. http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1218.0 But you need an account there to get the att

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-06 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > I had it in my brain that Lilypond had a simple switch to enable the > pseudo-handwritten font and engraving style that one often sees in jazz and > stage band music, but after a lengthy search last night, I now wonder if > I was hallucinatin

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > I had it in my brain that Lilypond had a simple switch to enable the > pseudo-handwritten font and engraving style that one often sees in jazz and > stage band music, but after a lengthy search last night, I now wonder if I > was hallucinating.

Re: Pseudo-handwritten font

2013-03-06 Thread Shane Brandes
there was a jazz font patch somewhile ago. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-12/msg00290.html Shane On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > I had it in my brain that Lilypond had a simple switch to enable the > pseudo-handwritten font and engraving style that one