On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Josh Nichols <[email protected]> wrote: > I really enjoy the look and feel of the LilyPond Feta font, but I would like > to use it in programs that can use other fonts like Sibelius.
This question has been asked a number of times (including by yourself ;-) see for instance http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10/msg00762.html > I would really like to make this available and continue the excellence that > LilyPond and Feta font have created, minus the complex language and > programming necessary to make it happen. IMNSHO, this is Not A Good Idea (tm). The Feta font is only a tiny tiny part of what makes LilyPond "excellent". And the Lily language really is not so complex. When I started using LilyPond, I was writing an opera and I already had engraved about 200 pages in Sibelius. Then I met LilyPond. - For a while I tried to continue using Sibelius and importing the Feta font (just like you). That didn't work. - After that I realized the LilyPond quality was just too damn good, so I tried to find a way to convert my .sib files into LilyPond code (there was a sib2ly project back then, but it never got anywhere). - After that I understood there would never be a way to do that properly, so I tried to use an intermediate format such as musicXML or MIDI, and then convert that to LilyPond. - And after spending a few weeks and getting nowhere, I realized I had to start over and copy my music from scratch. But the LilyPond language was still too frightening to me, so I tried to enter my .ly files using a MIDI keyboard. - That wasn't really working for me, it was unbearably slow. So I just ended up retyping the whole thing in plain code using my laptop keyboard, a text editor and the LilyPondTool plugin. And suddenly it appeared that this solution was indeed much, *much* faster than I would ever have imagined. Copying my 200 pages in plain LilyPond code took me less than three weeks (as a beginner). I realized I had never ever been that fast with Sibelius/Finale/Encore, so I had no more interest in using any of these programs. Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
