Don Simons wrote:
I found a font lcirclew10 in my MiKTeX installation that has quarter-circles in 4 orientations and various sizes. The TeXperts might be able to work out a scheme for combining two of these characters to give a semicircle. That would avoid having to use METAFONT. They have rounded ends but that might not be bad for the intended use. This font also has full circles in various sizes.
Years ago Mats Bengtsson, Lilypond- and MusiXTeX engraver, provided a specialized a Lilypond TeX font, 'old-feta' offering a number of mensural notation tempus-, prolation- and proportion symbols incl. a half circle. This font is part of WIMA's software collection, see http://icking-music-archive.org/software/indexmt6.html under 'MusiXTeX Files'. There is an on-line instruction on how to install and use the font, see http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/add-ons/readme-of.txt
I'm using the font for my editions of early music, for example Orazio Vecchi's "Selva di Varia Ricreatione". The file http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/vecchi/SelvaDiRecreazione/common.zip contains a.o. a MusiXTeX include file, mensural.tex setting up macros for various symbols.
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