In light of the three positive responses I received, I do plan to write up some instructions and make the necessary TeX macros available. But there are major copyright questions about the fonts I used. So I'll try to explain below what I did to get them installed, but I won't be able to provide the font files themselves...I'll just have to ask interested folks to go through the steps I did to find the font definition files, generate the files that are needed by TeX, and install them in a TeX setup.
There are two fonts you'll need, JazzText-Regular and Jazz-Regular. You can google to find the .ttf files. If you download and install fontforge, you can then use that to generate .pfb and .tfm files. I didn't need to change any of the defaults, but see the note below. Put those files into the right places in your TeX setup. Add the following lines to psfonts.map: JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular <JazzText-Regular.pfb Jazz-Regular Jazz-Regular <Jazz-Regular.pfb (You can find the map file by opening a command window and typing kpsewhich psfonts.map. There are sexier ways to modify the map file which are supposed to be better if you upgrade your TeX installation, but they didn't work for me.) Of course, as always, you need to update the TeX filename database. Please let me know privately if you try this and have any problems. Meanwhile I'll be working on the documentation. I think there is a limitation with making the files as I just described...I don't think any postscript or pdf files containing the fonts will work on any system that doesn't have the fonts installed. If that's a problem for you, again please contact me privately. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 5:09 PM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Jazz typesetting > > I have recently assembled macros and--with lots of help from Bob Tennent-- > fonts, that let me do a pretty decent job of emulating the appearance of a > jazz fake book. Here's an example: > http://www.pchpublish.com/bbbxv/newdonbook.pdf > which incidentally contains the six jazz tunes I've written over the years. I > used PMX for this (of course) but there are no changes to PMX, rather, > they're all in the form of new TeX macros mainly to define the fonts and do > the chord symbols. > > I have not invested the effort of posting the new tex files, documenting how > to use them, or modifying PMX to make it easier to use them. I'd certainly be > willing to do the first two and get to work on the 3rd if I knew for sure there > was anyone else out there who would use them. So if you are out there, > post something on this list to let me know. > > --Don Simons > > > ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
