Typo alert: It should read Add the following two lines to psfonts.map:
JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular <JazzText-Regular.pfb Jazz-Regular Jazz-Regular <Jazz-Regular.pfb and let's hope the line break comes in the right place this time around. I'm sure TeX wouldn't be very forgiving if it didn't. > > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don > Simons > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 8:50 PM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting > > 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 ------------------------------- 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
