I've begun to make a true type font for renaissance music, and I hope to adapt it soon for Abcm2ps, or other applications. It can be useful to recreate historical manuscripts, like the Playford one and those of the Village Music Project.
The problem is that I can't extract fonts used by abcm2ps because it's not like Abctab2ps which use type 1 fonts. I haven't tried yet to adapt it for Abctab2ps but I think those separated fonts are only for the tablature, and for the partition it seems to use fonts located in syms.c like Abcm2ps. If someone is interested in helping to developp this project, the fonts (in several formats) are at : http://anamnese.online.fr/abc/renaissance_fonts.html There are also comparation between an original manuscript (a tune from Orchesography) and an abc tunes with this font. It doesn't look so bad (it's cleaner but it's quite the same). But it won't work for every tune at the moment. How were designed the fonts in the abc to postscript applications ? And how could I made the necessary changes to make them work for other applications ? I've used pfaedit (http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/) in order to convert my vectorial drawings into font. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
