Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Polesky
Bernardo Barros wrote: I'm thinking of creating a font for contemporary music with the most commonly used symbols. Bernardo, I did a ton of work on this a while ago, then ended up dropping it cold. http://repo.or.cz/w/lilypond/mpolesky.git/shortlog/refs/heads/pictograms I don't know if this

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-11 Thread Bernardo Barros
Very helpful. Thanks you, everyone. I think the more adequate way would be FontForge - Metafont then. Mark: I will take a look in your repo, thanks! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I think the more adequate way would be FontForge - Metafont then. Well, yes and no. If you plan to add something to LilyPond's fonts, designing with FontForge might work, but a direct translation of the outlines to Metafont will most probably fail: You must add some `metaness' to the MF stuff

Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
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. I know that there are some sources for this purpose, and find them very useful. But most are bloated with not very useful

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
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

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread Janek WarchoĊ‚
2011/7/10 Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com: 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. I know that there are some sources for this purpose, and find them

Re: Suggestions for a Contemporary Music Font

2011-07-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/10/11 8:34 AM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a fan of the SVG backend, because it allows an absolute final touch in the score, and realized that PostScript can not be very compatible with svg. So, also in this case, a Font is a better options then PostScript