Re: GUI for selecting text and music fonts (was: Sample document to show music fonts)

Hi Urs, this looks really great. I realized that I have different preferences whether I have to choose a text font for a paragraph of text or for some words like "cresc." or "dim." in a score. Therefore, I like the idea of showing the text font inside a score. I agree that a list of fonts is bet

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

On 9/21/18 12:31 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Slurs and ties are not part of the music font and therefore look the same, regardless of the font. Good to know. I guess then they ought to be left out of the preview. I think the fact that it'd be vocal music would be different enough. Especially the l

GUI for selecting text and music fonts (was: Sample document to show music fonts)

Hijacking my own thread to keep the reference ... By now I'm quite happy about the interface to show sample documents to demonstrate music fonts in Frescobaldi (for reference I copy the link to https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/1075#issuecomment-423532714 (with a screencast) from a pr

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 21.09.2018 um 17:28 schrieb Br. Samuel Springuel: As my general use case is hymns for congregational singing, if I were to find the time to create a sample, it would probably have the following characteristics: Notes of all durations from 1/16 to whole. Some of the 1/8 and 1/16 notes woul

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

As my general use case is hymns for congregational singing, if I were to find the time to create a sample, it would probably have the following characteristics: Notes of all durations from 1/16 to whole. Some of the 1/8 and 1/16 notes would be beamed while others unbeamed. Some slurs and ties.

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Hi foxfanfare Am 20.09.2018 um 15:08 schrieb foxfanfare: Urs Liska-3 wrote I would say generally it should include one system because it should require as little compiling time as possible and that would most likely fit in the window without (much) scrolling. If it feels useful or necessary to

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Satire is IP just the same as anything else. Unless your comment was satirical! Andrew On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 04:26, Aaron Hill wrote: > > > P.S. I'm not sure how international intellectual property laws deal > with satire. > > ___ lilypond-user ma

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

On 2018-09-20 1:26 am, foxfanfare wrote: Anyone motivated? https://curatingsubjects.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/79b.gif Seems someone got a little confused. That GIF mixes two songs by Stump. "Faerie's Aire..." is only one page long. The second page is part of "String Quartet No. 556(b) for

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

foxfanfare wrote > Scriabin.JPG > ; > Scriabin_-_Piano_Sonata_No.ly > ; > Little mistake, could you please correct line 16 with: \finger \markup

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Urs Liska-3 wrote > I would say generally it should include one system because it should > require as little compiling time as possible and that would most likely > fit in the window without (much) scrolling. If it feels useful or > necessary to show more then it's ok, too. The window will cope

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 20.09.2018 um 12:10 schrieb foxfanfare: Urs Liska-3 wrote Now all I need is a bunch of (self-contained) sample files without paper blocks which I can then add to the ComboBox's list. Looking forward to contributions. Urs Great! How long should the excerpt be? 1 line? 1 page? more? I wo

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Urs Liska-3 wrote > Now all I need is a bunch of (self-contained) sample files without paper > blocks which I can then add to the ComboBox's list. > Looking forward to contributions. > > Urs Great! How long should the excerpt be? 1 line? 1 page? more? -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 20.09.2018 um 10:39 schrieb Urs Liska: This is a very good idea. I have now implemented the option to use custom files as can be seen here: https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/1075#issuecomment-423093733 (the screencast is probably too large for the list so I refer to that place).

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 20.09.2018 um 10:26 schrieb foxfanfare: Urs Liska-3 wrote Now that there seems to be a certain common understanding of my initial idea, may I repeat my request for someone to provide a suitable default sample document? Coming up with a score that provides representative details with as lit

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Urs Liska-3 wrote > Now that there seems to be a certain common understanding of my initial > idea, may I repeat my request for someone to provide a suitable default > sample document? > Coming up with a score that provides representative details with as > little content as possible does require

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 20.09.2018 um 02:09 schrieb Br. Samuel Springuel: On 9/19/18 6:23 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Do you have any concerns about the limitations with regard to the use of the Score Wizard for the Score Wizard's use case too? The limitations I was worried about were related to the lack of variety of

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

On 9/19/18 6:23 PM, Urs Liska wrote: Do you have any concerns about the limitations with regard to the use of the Score Wizard for the Score Wizard's use case too? The limitations I was worried about were related to the lack of variety of the glyphs involved in the preview. When it comes to p

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

On 2018-09-19 3:21 pm, Urs Liska wrote: Am 19.09.2018 um 19:27 schrieb Karlin High: On 9/19/2018 12:17 PM, Urs Liska wrote: you can see a very preliminary version of the font preview. (APPLAUSE) Came through great in Thunderbird here. Very effective demo in a 126KB GIF. Indeed, I like thi

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 19.09.2018 um 19:38 schrieb foxfanfare: Urs Liska-3 wrote In a nutshell (would take too long to explain in detail) * Significantly improve the "Show available fonts" dialog that so far only shows the pretty uncomprehensible LilyPond log: o Display real family names, grouped

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 19.09.2018 um 19:46 schrieb Br. Samuel Springuel: I was in the process of noting the limitations of the Score Wizard preview and how they made it less useful for a font preview when your preliminary demo came through.  Since I think the preliminary demo is great and addresses my concerns,

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 19.09.2018 um 19:27 schrieb Karlin High: On 9/19/2018 12:17 PM, Urs Liska wrote: you can see a very preliminary version of the font preview. (APPLAUSE) Came through great in Thunderbird here. Very effective demo in a 126KB GIF. Indeed, I like this tool very much: https://github.com/p

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

I was in the process of noting the limitations of the Score Wizard preview and how they made it less useful for a font preview when your preliminary demo came through. Since I think the preliminary demo is great and addresses my concerns, I'm scrapping that post just to say I like where the de

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Urs Liska-3 wrote > In a nutshell (would take too long to explain in detail) > > * Significantly improve the "Show available fonts" dialog that so far > only shows the pretty uncomprehensible LilyPond log: > o Display real family names, grouped and sorted, with actual-font > pr

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

On 9/19/2018 12:17 PM, Urs Liska wrote: you can see a very preliminary version of the font preview. (APPLAUSE) Came through great in Thunderbird here. Very effective demo in a 126KB GIF. -- Karlin High Missouri, USA ___ lilypond-user mailing list li

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 19.09.2018 um 18:11 schrieb foxfanfare: tisimst wrote My 2 cents... A font preview is a font preview and the best, in my opinion, are those that show something in a practical context. In this case, an image of a single or grand staff showing 2-3 bars of a marginally interesting looking pas

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

tisimst wrote > My 2 cents... > > A font preview is a font preview and the best, in my opinion, are those > that show something in a practical context. In this case, an image of a > single or grand staff showing 2-3 bars of a marginally interesting looking > passage would be much more representati

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 19.09.2018 um 01:20 schrieb Abraham Lee: Hi, Urs! On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:46 PM Urs Liska > wrote: Am 18.09.2018 um 21:08 schrieb Aaron Hill: > On 2018-09-18 4:58 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: >> Hi Urs, >> >> I would like to set the glyph

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Hi, Urs! On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:46 PM Urs Liska wrote: > > > Am 18.09.2018 um 21:08 schrieb Aaron Hill: > > On 2018-09-18 4:58 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: > >> Hi Urs, > >> > >> I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website: > >> > >> https://www.musictypefoundry.com/pro

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Am 18.09.2018 um 21:08 schrieb Aaron Hill: On 2018-09-18 4:58 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Urs, I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/product/mtf-cadence Much rather this than a piece of music. Any sample of music will be ir

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

On 2018-09-18 4:58 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Urs, I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/product/mtf-cadence Much rather this than a piece of music. Any sample of music will be irrelevant to some large subset of people. For e

Re: Sample document to show music fonts

Hi Urs, I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/product/mtf-cadence Much rather this than a piece of music. Any sample of music will be irrelevant to some large subset of people. For example, my new complexity stuff would just anno

Sample document to show music fonts

Hi all, I'm going to pick up the work on Frescobaldi's "Show available fonts" dialog, which I had started giving a fundamental overhaul before the holidays. I'm looking for a nice template document that can be used to demonstrate a music font. It should not be too "heavy", and ideally it wou