I also use a non-free Garamond for my scores... the only freely available version I know of is URW Garamond, which is 1)not the prettiest Garamond out there ;-) and 2)not a very complete font family. I suppose point 2 is valid for many of the free fonts around. Junicode (http://junicode.sourceforge.net/) is the only free font I sort of liked and used for a few scores. The FontForge source is available, and there is a deb package for it-- but only as a ttf font. So one would have to convert it himself (sort of messy) to use in TeX.
On Nov 9, 2008, Elie Roux wrote: > > 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. > >> .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. I think things like font conversion or making your own .sty files fall under "General TeX knowledge that would be useful to know, even if all you ever want to do with TeX is create beautiful chant scores":-) I don't know whether you think that would be better to document on your own site, or to simply point to various LaTeX tutorials out there already (I did see the one linked on the gregoriotex/tex page). The only problem with simply pointing to other sites is many focus on things not very useful to the would-be chant typesetter -- graphs, footnotes and bibliographies, math equations, etc. --Tracy _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
