Richard Chonak a écrit : > Another topic we should address in the documentation some day :-) is > the variety of text fonts available in TeXLive that users might want to > use for their chant pieces. The default in the examples/ files is > "times". I have used "palatino", which is beautiful, and "newcent", > which is easy to read. > > Yet there may be other fonts available. Some people particularly like > the fonts in the classic Solesmes books, so any TeX fonts that resemble > them might be of interest. >
The Solesmes font was made by Solesmes and they don't want to share it. A priori the closest is the Garamond, although the a and the g have some noticeable differences. The problem is that if you want a beautiful Garamond, you'll need a non-free one, like the very famous Adobe Garamond Pro. A lot of professionals use this font, and it is the one I use in my scores and books; I think it's the best one, and I'm very happy with it, but I must admit I didn't look for something else since this font was enough for me. The thing is I can't really talk about that on the site, since it is not free. I'm not quite sure there is a free font with an equivalent quality, as a teacher of mine (very famous in the TeX and fonts milieu) told me to use non-free fonts, but if you have some ideas, I can look at them. > .sty files for some fonts are not present in ubuntu's texlive > installation, so we would probably need to provide .sty files or > instructions on how to generate them. > Non-free fonts are for now quite hard to install, but the otfinstall script is working quite well. Sadly, with this script you have to do some dirty modifications by hand to typeset some glyphs, like ý or æ. It should be better with LuaTeX as it will be able to handle otf and ttf fonts natively, but the otf handling and the LaTeX part are not stable enough. So, sadly, like in any other typesetting system, if someone wants high quality typesetting, he'll have to look for a thing or two by himself... So I don't really know how to talk about that on the site... maybe just saying something equivalent as this mail (without naming fonts)? Thank you for the idea! -- Elie _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
