Hermann Hinsch wrote: > A question to the TeX experts: Actually I think a METAFONT expert would be more help here but they're such a rare breed...
> I would like to get a special design of the printed part of a meter, > as it is used in > early music like this: C3/4 or O3/1, to be exact instead of C a halve > circle and instead > of O a circle is used. The WASY font package (font wasy10) contains two symbols which may be a good starting point "23 - whole circle "49 - left half circle with vertical line The only problem is that I think for the clef you're after you don't want the vertical line on the half symbol? However, on page 96 of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol list there is a tutorial for producing very simple METAFONT sources. If you search for "Left half ocircle" and "ocircle same size as operators" in rsym.mf then you get the METAFONT source for each of those characters and then wasym10.mf shows how the font would be produced and the two together should be enough to graft those two symbols into a font on their own and possibly get rid of the vertical line (and maybe even add the 3/4 and 3/1 as part of the whole symbol). I imagine there is a way with a METAFONT path to tell it not to join the last two dots (which is what causes the vertical line, I think). I'd love to play with it but <sigh> time... hope those pointers may be of some help if you have a little more! There may also of course be a font out there with the open cut half circle (or if you're happy to use rotation \special instructions, you could rotate a properly circular intersection symbol which is definitely in one of the maths symbol fonts listed in the symbol guide...) My other thought is whether it's something which lilypond can do - in which case it'll have a font symbol for it which can be "borrowed". Anyway, I shall return from dreams of hacking in METAFONT and return instead to hacking in TeX... David _______________________________________________ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
