On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 06:39:16 am +0200, Élie Roux wrote: > Le 22/04/2015 04:38, Henry T. So Jr. a écrit : > > I have had one problem with the greciliae font (and Caeciliae before > > it), which is that the stropha and the "punctum inclinatum" look too > > similar. I feel like it's probably too presumptuous of me to change > > those glyphs for everyone, but at same time, to create and maintain a > > whole other font for the sake of two glyphs (the stropha and it's > > liquescent counterpart) seems overkill. > > Absolutely. In fact I'm very glad you raise the problem, because you're > not the only one not liking the stropha of Greciliae. Attached is a font > (a fork from an outdated greciliae-base.sfd) containing a changed > stropha, what do you think about it?
I'll admit that I much (much much much much...) prefer the version in the file you attached. > > What do you think of implementing some sort of variant system? It could > > be as straightforward as creating extra glyphs and having the user > > redefine the symbols as desired, or as complex as having macros that do > > the same. I have noticed that we already have some support for font > > variation in the "punctum cavum" glyphs, so maybe this idea is not too > > far-fetched. > > I think it's the way to go, indeed! We should discuss this further. I will open an issue on github. > > I think we can also use such a feature for the alternate (older) oriscus > > shape that was discussed on the list a few years ago. > > I admit I can't remember that... Do you have a pointer? http://www.mail-archive.com/gregorio-users%40gna.org/msg01991.html (which actually was less than a year ago) Thanks, Henry _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
