On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 4:58 PM Alexandre Torres Porres <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Em dom., 17 de jan. de 2021 às 20:09, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]> > escreveu: > >> the only guaranteed font to be available on Windows and Linux is "DejaVu >> Sans Mono" (and if the font-renderer weren't broken on macOS, you could >> count on that font too). open the ttf-file with a font manager program and >> inspect it to see which glyphs it natively supports. > > and it looks like it has (single) sharp and flat signs, but not double >> ones. >> > > hmm, I'm looking at FontBook on DejaVu and I don't see sharp & flat signs. > > >> that doesn't actually sound perfect and ideal to me. >> fonts are generally large, and i would consider 𝄪 and 𝄫 to be edge >> cases. > > > yes, they are. > > >> i don't think i ever needed them; your use-case might of course be >> different > > > I was thinking of a database of scales, for didactical purposes, so G# > minor (parallel key of B Major) with an altered major 7th has F𝄪, for > instance. > > >> but i don't think we should target at satisfying each and every usecase >> out of the box. >> > > I was just thinking of all great possibilities we could have with a nice > set of musical symbol fonts, like displaying chords and being able to > design some simple notation things for chords and scales. More than double > sharp/flats, microtonal stuff like quarter tone would be also awesome. They > have that in open music. > just to chime in here, is there any reason not to use a dedicated musically oriented font like Opus? it seems weird to try to use one font for every sort of purpose and i'm sure there's a few free fonts that could be used that are similar, even ones under GPL. i suspect that Open Music uses one of these. best, scott > > Nonetheless, I guess one can try and design a GUI for that. But that'd be > way out of my league... > > cheers > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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