Re: Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-13 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello These look great. If you publish the postscript code I will include the fonts (the noteheads and clefs, anyway) in iabc. as said on the website, the postscript fonts are published : http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaiss_music_font.zip

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-11 Thread ANewman110
These look great. If you publish the postscript code I will include the fonts (the noteheads and clefs, anyway) in iabc. Regards, Aaron To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-08 Thread Forgeot Eric
I've already converted them to postscript, thanks PfaEdit. I tried to replace the fonts used in the source code of Abcm2ps, for getting 2 different binaries. As explained on my site, the exported fonts (by PfaEdit) where different in the definition from the postscript code used in Abcm2ps JF

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-07 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Forgeot Eric wrote: Hello, it's still a work in progress, but you can look at : http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaissance_fonts.html that's _very_ nice - if you need assistance converting your existing font into PostScript, feel free to contact me. Ciao, Guido =8-)

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-07 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, John Walsh wrote: Is there documentation that explains abc2ps fonts and how to write them, or is this something one should learn by reading the code? I I'm going to release the English version of my manual today. It contains a section about using non-standard fonts

[abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Guido Gonzato
Hello, with very little effort, abcm2ps could typeset scores using Renaissance-style notes; that is, those fancy square or diamond-shaped notes. To this end, we'd need two things: 1) disable the proportional spacing of notes. This probably calls for a new abcm2ps %%command and/or command-line

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Are shapenotes Renaissance? I thought they went back to plainchant notation. (this is probably why I only barely passed Music history last sem and prolly won't this sem) Guido Gonzato wrote: Hello, with very little effort, abcm2ps could typeset scores using Renaissance-style notes; that

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Christian M. Cepel wrote: Are shapenotes Renaissance? I thought they went back to plainchant notation. (this is probably why I only barely passed Music history last sem and prolly won't this sem) AFAIK, plain chant used several types of neumes, i.e. the square neumes

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Phil Taylor
Christian M. Cepel wrote: Are shapenotes Renaissance? I thought they went back to plainchant notation. (this is probably why I only barely passed Music history last sem and prolly won't this sem) Well, square- and diamond-shaped notes are certainly used in Gregorian notation, but this notation

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Neumes!!! That was the word I was looking for. Thank you! I couldn't for the life of me remember. Mine was a stupid question. Since you're both well versed on music history (in the western tradition anyways), you'll know why I'm having trouble trying to persuade our first daughter (assuming

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Sorry to double post, but I realized that my post made no sense. That was supposed to read Since you're both well versed on music history (in the western tradition anyways), you'll know why I'm having trouble trying to persuade MY WIFE TO NAME our first daughter (assuming we have one)

[abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello, it's still a work in progress, but you can look at : http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaissance_fonts.html ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To

Re: [abcusers] Renaissance notes, anyone?

2003-03-06 Thread John Walsh
Guido Gonzato writes, with very little effort, abcm2ps could typeset scores using Renaissance-style notes; that is, those fancy square or diamond-shaped notes. To this end, we'd need two things: [...] 2) new note shapes, which I could easily write as new PostScript routines.