Re: [Gregorio-users] Ancient notation fonts

2013-08-01 Thread Henry So, Jr.
Dear Sister, Infermeria dell'Isola sangiulioinferme...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, since I'm very ignorant about all the topics you're discussing (magnifications and so on), I'll wait for a try on a score to see how they works! I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that the

Re: [Gregorio-users] Ancient notation fonts

2013-07-31 Thread Élie Roux
Dear Henry, Please find attached viri-test.zip, which contains the first part of the Viri Galilaei antiphon, using the various magnifications of the Cardine font. Thank you very much for the test! It clearly shows that 100 is the best... I'm not sure it's even worthy to make tests with 90

Re: [Gregorio-users] Ancient notation fonts

2013-07-30 Thread Élie Roux
Le 27/07/2013 14:43, Henry So Jr. a écrit : I've attached the PDFs for the font at magnifications 100, 180 and 200 for your perusal. Lower magnifications make the font thicker and higher, thinner. These are in cardine-mag100,180,200-pdf.zip. The reason I also used 100 is because I decided to

Re: [Gregorio-users] Ancient notation fonts

2013-07-27 Thread Élie Roux
Dear all, Thank you Henri for having inspected this and getting the good results! Without the rendering on an actual score it's quite hard to decide what value to use for magnification, but I believe 150 is rather good... maybe improving it a little like 180 ou 200? Once we'll be decided for

Re: [Gregorio-users] Ancient notation fonts

2013-07-26 Thread Infermeria dell'Isola
Dear Elie and Henry, I agree with you, I prefer the Cardine font, too. Looking at the pdf documents only, I like mag150 more than penx10 (too bold). In addition, in penx10 I'm not able to see the punctum anymore... May I try to modify this Cardine-mag150 to obtain something more regular and

Re: [Gregorio-users] Ancient notation fonts

2013-07-26 Thread Henry So Jr.
I certainly don't mind, but then again, I am in no authority to agree or disagree. I was just playing with the conversion to see if I would yield a better result. It looks like, Joerg Hudelmaier has released the Cardine font under the SIL Open Font License (see the cardine.mf file). Basically,