Bob Tennent wrote > What makes a font a "jazz" font?
I'm no expert but by observation, there's a particular font family used in fake books (compilations of jazz tunes with just melody and chord symbols). You can easily see it if you download one of the free copies of JazzText_Regular.ttf and double click on the file. It looks almost hand drawn; lower case letters are small upper case; and one of the distinctive letters is E, in which the 3 horizontal strokes splay outward away from each other. >I'm very suspicious of fonts downloaded > from dubious sites on the internet. > fontforge won't even load that font without one stating that you have > permission to do so, and finds many errors. > > My advice is to look for the kind of font you want at a commercial site like > myfonts.com and use it just for text. I don't know what fontforge is. I gather your suspicions are based both on legality and fear of errors. Yes, there are versions on commercial sites, but they cost at least $40. Even if there is a legal issue, I'm willing to take the miniscule risk and save $40. The good news is that I found another free .ttf that has jazz font versions of most other musical symbols. The bad news is that I still don't have an answer to my original question, which was basically how to use a .ttf in MusiXTeX, not Lilypond. --Don Simons ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
