On 16 June 2013 20:46, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And here a new, freely available music font! > > http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/05/introducing-bravura-music-font/
Yeah, it was mentioned on lilypond-user last month. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00718.html And it seems that makes Janek enthusiast also, maybe too much (called "Lilypond evangelism"). > (this is *really* free since it uses the SIL Open Font License). Totally! That means it can be used, bundled, modified and redistributed freely (SIL OFL is a copyleft license, considered free by the Free Software Foundation, as well as by the Debian project). So we could imagine some sort of "music font package" that could be used by LilyPond instead (or better, alongside with) Feta, same for Gonville, LilyJazz (and now Bravura). People on the French users mailing lists are really enthusiasts about Torsten's Jazz font, but they have somehow hard time to make it work properly in LilyPond. Some of them do not like the aspect (font) of some glyphs/grobs of LilyPond and would like to change the music font *grob by grob*. So it would be possible to mix Feta, Gonville, LilyJazz (and Bravura) music font in one same score. Easier support for alternative music fonts, (text) jazz font for chords as well as fontspec-like OpenType font features are three majors improvements for LilyPond. http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=870 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1494 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1388 Maybe this could be added as a special Google Summer of Code project (in the spirit of Google free webfonts), or some kind of Kikstarter(-like) project? Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <[email protected]>
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