On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most
> commonly used symbols.
> I miss a lot of specific symbols and I'm sure a lot of LilyPond users do too.
>
This is a fantastic idea.
> I know that there are some sources for this purpose, and find them very
> useful.
> But most are bloated with not very useful symbols, while very common
> things are missing.
>
> I know of Controla, Sonora fonts, for instance
> [http://www.music-notation.info/en/fonts/Controla.html]
> Both with really useful symbols.
>
If these are free fonts, I'd recommend finding out what license they're under.
If they're under a flexible license, you could start by tracing a hi-res bitmap
in FontForge and tweaking those vector graphics to your heart's content. The
easiest way to get them into LilyPond would be to get them into MetaFont via
FontForge.
> If anyone wants to contribute, it would be interesting to put this
> source in some repository (github or similar),
> so more users could all contribute, review, discuss and use the work.
>
You've likely already covered many of the important bases. I'm looking forward
to seeing, using, and contributing to what you cook up!
Cheers,
MS
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