Re: Aiken note heads: Are there thin variants with more interior white space for whole and half notes?

[Abraham Lee]

Hi, Karlin!

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 3:38 PM Karlin High  wrote:

> On 6/12/2017 3:57 PM, tisimst wrote:
> > Try using this:
> >
> > aikenHeadsThin = \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(doThin reThin miThin faThin
> > sol laThin tiThin)
> >
> > And then calling it with \aikenHeadsThin.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Abraham
>
> That looks very, very promising! Thank you, Abraham.
>
> Is musictypefoundry.com your place? I might have to buy one of your
> fonts for this. If they have Aiken heads, that is. :)


Yes, it is! Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to include shape-notes
yet in any of them yet. Sorry.

Best,
Abraham

>
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Re: Aiken note heads: Are there thin variants with more interior white space for whole and half notes?

[tisimst]

Hi, Karlin!

First off, congrats! Hope this all works out for you.

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Karlin High [via Lilypond] <
ml+s1069038n203743...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:

> A songwriter asked me to type up some of her compositions. Much of the
> intended audience is in communities that have standardized on Aiken-head
> notes for most of the past century, and use little else. LilyPond has
> those shapes, no problem, I thought. But her benchmark is a certain
> publishing house that uses Finale with a customized font, example at
> this link:
>
> http://www.prairieviewpress.com/images/pdfs/Kneel_At_The_Cross.pdf
>
> I've been able to accommodate several of her requests for appearance
> changes. But for her taste, the LilyPond 2.19.59 whole and half notes
> have too little white space on the note head interiors. Apparently I'm
> working under the expectation that unfilled shaped-note heads be drawn
> with a thin, uniform line instead of horizontal lines being heavier. I
> got closer to her ideal by increasing NoteHead.font-size but expect it's
> possible to do more. Such as fiddling with MetaFont sources, if need be.
> Before digging in at that level, I did some Googling and found that
> topics like this have been discussed in the past...
>
> https://code.google.com/archive/p/lilypond/issues/602
>
> ...and the 2.19 change log also metions something:
>
> "Improved visual spacing of small and regular ‘MI’ Funk and Walker
> noteheads so they are now the same width as other shaped notes in their
> respective sets. SOL noteheads are also now visually improved when used
> with both the normal Aiken and Sacred Harp heads, as well as with the
> thin variants."
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index
>
> "Thin variants!" I keep seeing that term. What are they, and how would I
> access them? Maybe I don't need to head for the new-to-me frontiers of
> MetaFont after all.
>

Try using this:

aikenHeadsThin = \set shapeNoteStyles = ##(doThin reThin miThin faThin sol
laThin tiThin)

And then calling it with \aikenHeadsThin.

HTH,
Abraham




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Aiken note heads: Are there thin variants with more interior white space for whole and half notes?

[Karlin High]

A songwriter asked me to type up some of her compositions. Much of the 
intended audience is in communities that have standardized on Aiken-head 
notes for most of the past century, and use little else. LilyPond has 
those shapes, no problem, I thought. But her benchmark is a certain 
publishing house that uses Finale with a customized font, example at 
this link:

http://www.prairieviewpress.com/images/pdfs/Kneel_At_The_Cross.pdf

I've been able to accommodate several of her requests for appearance 
changes. But for her taste, the LilyPond 2.19.59 whole and half notes 
have too little white space on the note head interiors. Apparently I'm 
working under the expectation that unfilled shaped-note heads be drawn 
with a thin, uniform line instead of horizontal lines being heavier. I 
got closer to her ideal by increasing NoteHead.font-size but expect it's 
possible to do more. Such as fiddling with MetaFont sources, if need be. 
Before digging in at that level, I did some Googling and found that 
topics like this have been discussed in the past...

https://code.google.com/archive/p/lilypond/issues/602

...and the 2.19 change log also metions something:

"Improved visual spacing of small and regular ‘MI’ Funk and Walker 
noteheads so they are now the same width as other shaped notes in their 
respective sets. SOL noteheads are also now visually improved when used 
with both the normal Aiken and Sacred Harp heads, as well as with the 
thin variants."
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/changes/index

"Thin variants!" I keep seeing that term. What are they, and how would I 
access them? Maybe I don't need to head for the new-to-me frontiers of 
MetaFont after all.
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA
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