Re: [Tex-music] Jazz text font

2015-02-25 Thread Bob Tennent
>|You can then process any musixtex file as usual using >|musixtex116. The text will be in JazzText. The quod.pdf I attached won't display properly unless you have JazzText-Regular.pfb installed; this is because the font has a licensing restriction that prevents embedding. I imagine the ttf has

Re: [Tex-music] Jazz text font

2015-02-25 Thread Bob Tennent
>|The bad news is that I still don't have an answer to my >|original question, which was basically how to use a .ttf >|in MusiXTeX, not Lilypond. For alphabetic and numeric text: Use fontforge (a free font editing program) or similar to convert the ttf to pfb and tfm. Apparently you've done t

Re: [Tex-music] Jazz text font

2015-02-25 Thread Don Simons
Bob Tennent wrote > What makes a font a "jazz" font? I'm no expert but by observation, there's a particular font family used in fake books (compilations of jazz tunes with just melody and chord symbols). You can easily see it if you download one of the free copies of JazzText_Regular.ttf and dou

Re: [Tex-music] Jazz text font

2015-02-25 Thread Urs Liska
Am 25. Februar 2015 15:27:48 MEZ, schrieb Bob Tennent : > >|Not that this really answers your question ??? but it's trivial in > >|xelatex. > >xelatex (and xetex) produce pdf without going through dvi >and ps. So Postscript slurs won't work. > > >|\setmainfont{JazzText} > >You'll be able to us

Re: [Tex-music] Jazz text font

2015-02-25 Thread Bob Tennent
>|Not that this really answers your question ??? but it's trivial in >|xelatex. xelatex (and xetex) produce pdf without going through dvi and ps. So Postscript slurs won't work. >|\setmainfont{JazzText} You'll be able to use alphabetic characters and digits, but special symbols would require