Am 2013-01-07 um 12:14 schrieb David Kastrup: > Henning Hraban Ramm <hra...@fiee.net> writes: > >> Am 2013-01-07 um 10:14 schrieb Urs Liska: >> >>> I'd like to collect some suggestion for a replacement font for >>> Century Schoolbook. >>> So (to finally get to the point) I'd be happy about suggestions for >>> good free text fonts to use with LilyPond. >>> They should be well equipped in terms of language support and have a >>> good array of weights and spacings. >> >> Hi Urs, >> I nearly always use TeX Gyre Schola for the lyrics in my lead sheets >> and songbooklets - mostly the same as Century Schoolbook, because it’s >> very good readable even under bad light conditions. > > Wouldn't those be pretty much exactly the same as the URW++ clones of > Century Schoolbook, except for supporting a larger character set?
Yes, and probably a bit better metrics. > And quite possibly more weights, so that might address one perceived > shortcoming. No. E.g. there's no free variant of Palatino Semibold. Of course there *are* Open Source fonts with more weights, but I know none that I can recommend - most I tried have too bad metrics, and others I didn’t try yet. Perhaps have a look at Venturis ADF (Utopia lookalike): http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/tugfonts.htm http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/venturisadf/ http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/venturissans/ Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user