On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 6:05 PM Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 16:54, Paolo Prete <paolopr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > They are good, but not GPL/open source... > > Hello Paolo, > > Most of them were open source initially (Open Font License). > There are repositories with the OFL-licensed versions here: > https://github.com/OpenLilyPondFonts > > Recently Daniel Benjamin Miller shared (on lilypond-user mailing list) his > work for a better support for Bravura (also OFL) in LilyPond: > https://github.com/dbenjaminmiller/bmusicfonts > > In the past talented developers (sorry, I do not remember who exactly but > thanks!) implemented a simple way to replace the music font, see NR 3.4.4 > Replacing the notation font > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/replacing-the-notation-font.html > > And presently Owen Lamb is implementing (GSoC 2020) SMuFL support in > Lilypond. > > I mean, it can always be improved but I am grateful for the work people > have done so far. > > Cheers, > Xavier > > -- > Hello Xavier, Thank you for the links. However, from what I see, they are more or less a "stylistic" choice. Instead, the Gonville font has a *functional* point of view that solves many issues of the Feta Font. If you look at its glyphs you can see that there's a meticulous work of making them optimized for *reading*. I don't understand why this is not part of Lilypond's project. I would use it as default. But, at least, it should be added as a ready-to-use option. Best, P >