Dear Jean - many thanks. In fact, I've discovered since my query that if you go to the Fronimo website, you'll find a "Pavan" font available for use. Also, if you download and install the Fronimo executable - even its demo package (which doesn't allow you to save your files) - you'll get several fonts which can be used. Orlando Lutes provide a package called LuteScribe which includes a font called LeRoy. This latter font is probably the closest to the font used in some early 17th century publications.
I'm not fully sure of the copyright issues with these fonts. For my own personal use, it doesn't matter. But I'm not sure about the legality of using these fonts in files made available, for example, on IMSLP. On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 10:11, Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le 16 août 2023 à 01:50, Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > If you look at > https://musescore.org/sites/musescore.org/files/2020-05/lute-tab-bug.png > (don't worry about the colours) there's a font which I like. A similar > font is used in abctab2ps (it's called "frFrancisque" there), and you can > see it in use at https://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/sample.png > > Is a similar font available for Lilypond? There are unicode glyphs at > > > https://www.w3.org/2019/03/smufl13/tables/french-and-english-renaissance-lute-tablature.html > > but these are in fact "private use characters". > > > > Some people have created fonts where these characters of a SMuFL font are > moved to the normal code points for a, b, c, ... You should be able to use > such a font (adding it to the font search path with > ly:font-config-add-file). > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user-fr/2019-03/msg00062.html > -- Alasdair McAndrew (he/him) mob: 0432 854 858 https://numbersandshapes.net
