Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Tatham
Hi, I've recently drawn a new font of musical symbols for use with Lilypond, which look more like the ones I'm used to and hence distract me less. I put it up on the web this weekend at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/ Currently the only way I've found to use that font

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 08:15 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Simon Tatham: Hi Simon, I've recently drawn a new font of musical symbols for use with Lilypond, which look more like the ones I'm used to and hence distract me less. I put it up on the web this weekend at

Re: how to do a minimalist rebuild of the documentation after minor changes?

2009-10-19 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 18 octobre 2009 à 21:22 +0100, Graham Percival a écrit : I don't have a clue. If I type make doc in Documentation/, then I look in Documentation/out-www/. If I type make doc in /, then I look in out-www/, and keep on looking in subdirectories until I see something that looks

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: (I hope this reply to the list works. I think not, you'll have to subscribe. I had to post my previous message through the Gmane interface, but if I have to post this one the same way, I won't be able to get the

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Tatham
Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Wow. You created a full font? That must have taken quite some time! I think Feta took Han-Wen and me something between one and two man-years of work. This one has only taken me a couple of months (including some initial thought about how to

final testing for 2.13.6

2009-10-19 Thread Graham Percival
Ok, we think that Jan and I are finishing making major changes to GUB. The versions in http://lilypond.org/~graham/ will become official if I get one person confirming it on OSX and one person confirming it on windows. The regtests look good. The next thing I investigate will be the size of

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, Although I greatly prefer the Feta font to Gonville, I'm very much enjoying this thread — kudos to Simon and Jan for all their hard and considered work! it doesn't seem surprising to me that one answer doesn't satisfy everybody's tastes! Agreed — this is one of the great(est)

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread David Kastrup
Simon Tatham ana...@pobox.com writes: I may yet make another attempt at redesigning the multiple flags. The intention was to have them all essentially similar in shape Why? What do you gain by smaller note values essentially making a spread-out regular rectangular black pattern across the

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Wow too. Actually, there are things in Feta what I don't feel natural either. For example: the caesura sign, the G-clef and the trill indication feels better for me in Gonville. Though the G-clef is I think a clear LilyPond watermark, so I would keep that one :) The best would be if I could

Re: final testing for 2.13.6

2009-10-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Graham Windows Vista Home Premium. Downloads, installs and runs fine. convert-ly seems fine too. The desktop icon fails, though. Clicking it just flashes a Command Prompt window, too fast to see a message. I think this has been the case for some time, at least on my system (I never

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Simon Tatham
(I hope this reply to the list works. I had to post my previous message through the Gmane interface, but if I have to post this one the same way, I won't be able to get the In-Reply-To header to work properly.) Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Wow. You created a full font? That

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: (I hope this reply to the list works. I think not, you'll have to subscribe. If this helps, I did receive Simon's earlier mail on the

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Simon Tatham: Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: This one has only taken me a couple of months (including some initial thought about how to get nice-looking curves without an excessive amount of manual specification).

Re: Alternative music font

2009-10-19 Thread demery
it would be nicer if Lilypond itself could centre the digits around the 2nd and 4th lines of the stave in the case where they're smaller than 2*staff_spacing Be sure to consider non-5-line staff situations. Character glyph could be raised above the baseline using a seperate coding point for

Re: final testing for 2.13.6

2009-10-19 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/19 Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk: Hi Graham Windows Vista Home Premium. Downloads, installs and runs fine. Same here on WXP.  convert-ly seems fine too. Not tested, sorry  The desktop icon fails, though.  Clicking it just flashes a Command Prompt window, too fast to see

Re: final testing for 2.13.6

2009-10-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Downloads, installs and runs fine. convert-ly seems fine too. The desktop icon fails, though. Clicking it just flashes a Command Prompt window, too fast to see a message. I think this has been the case for some time, at

Re: final testing for 2.13.6

2009-10-19 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Downloads, installs and runs fine.  convert-ly seems fine too.  The desktop icon fails, though.  Clicking it just flashes a Command Prompt window,

Re: Does anyone still use breakbefore?

2009-10-19 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi all, Can't you use a \bookpart block to achieve the page break at the start of a \score, too? Cheers, Ian Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2009 20:09:33 schrieb Joe Neeman: For a couple of years now, we've had Nicolas' cool

Re: Does anyone still use breakbefore?

2009-10-19 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009 01:27:49 schrieb Ian Hulin: Can't you use a \bookpart block to achieve the page break at the start of a \score, too? In that case, the full title will be printed, not just the piece header markup... Cheers, Reinhold

Re: final testing for 2.13.6

2009-10-19 Thread Dan Eble
On 2009-10-19, at 16:23 , Patrick McCarty wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Downloads, installs and runs fine. convert-ly seems fine too. The desktop icon fails, though.

Re: patch: tablature and MultiMeasureRestNumber

2009-10-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/16/09 2:04 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: Thanks Marc - pushed to origin/master. (Hope that's OK, Carl) Perfect! I've been off the web, so haven't been able to respond. Thanks! Carl Trevor ___