Hiroaki: Thank you. I've followed your procedure and generated the feta20.ps as described in your steps 1-4.
Ali: Can you let me/us know from the feta20.pdf Hiroaki attached which glyphs you need? I (or someone on this list) should be able to define suitable macros. Bob T. On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 9:50 AM Hiroaki MORIMOTO <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ali Unlu and all, > > This is a very similar theme to musixadf.tex which has been included in > recent MusiXTeX distribution. > > Unfortunately I am not familiar with Overleaf; I don't know whether > Overleaf system does accept any additional METAFONT source and > user-extension TeX macros by user level or not. > > But if you have a TeX system working on your own local computer, there is > a way. It's lucky that the musical font of LilyPond are originally written > in METAFONT; therefore, the font can also be used in other TeX documents > within the licencing terms (GNU-GPLv3). > > In case of my Windows 10 PC and W32TeX (nearly equal to TeXLive), the > example procedure will be: > > 1. Get LilyPond source code from https://lilypond.org/source.en.html and > extract it. > 2. Copy all the contents of extracted lilypond-2.24.0\mf directory into > (for example) C:\w32tex\share\texmf-local\fonts\source\public\lilypond. > The destination directory depends on the particular distributions (TeXLive, > MiKTeX, etc.). > 3. Run METAFONT to get the TFM file: > mf \mode=ultre; input feta20.mf > feta20.tfm and feta20.1200gf will be produced. > feta20.tfm is needed in the next step. feta20.1200gf is no longer > needed. > 4. Run TeX (not LaTeX, but plain TeX) for feta20.tex attached with this > mail: > tex feta20.tex > In this process, the tfm file feta20.tfm generated by above described > procedure is required. > You will get a DVI file feta20.dvi if your TeX system is enough > up-to-date and is set up appropriately. > Convert the DVI file into PS with dvips > dvips -e 0 -D 1200 feta20.dvi > or convert into PDF with dvipdfmx > dvipdfmx -r1200 feta20.dvi > otherwise you can use pdfTeX (color specials not work). > 5. Find the character code of the character you want. > 6. Develop extension macros to use the character you want. > > The step 6 is a very hard work. This requires very deep understanding of > musixtex.tex. Unfortunately I cannot provide further help because I have > no time nor motivation to develop for the time being. > > Note that the attached file feta20.tex is made by me and for just my > personal test use. You can change the basename of the attached file as you > like for the use of trying another font; but appropriate TFM file is > required to run it. I hope this file useful for everyone on this mailing > list. > > Good luck! > > Sincerely, > > Hiroaki > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Ali Unlu <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:09:44 +0300 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Tex-music] Help Needed for Implementing Turkish Classical Music > > Accidentals > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I use Overleaf with the MusixTex package to take notes for my Turkish > > Classical Music lessons and I need help with implementing the glyphs for > > the custom accidentals. > > > > There are ten accidentals in Turkish Classical Music, eight of which are > > custom. A diagram showing all of them can be found in the Wikipedia page > > for Turkish makams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_makam), the > > system used in Turksh Classical Music. These accidentals are available in > > Lilypond but it is not possible to use Overleaf with Lilypond. > > > > With my limited knowledge, I managed to define the "mirrored" flat one > as: > > > > \newcommand{\bemol}[1]{% > > \reflectbox{\fl{#1}}\kern6pt% > > } > > > > However, others require designing custom glyphs. Hence, I need someone to > > help me with this. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > ----- inline ----- > > ------------------------------- > > [email protected] mailing list > > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > ------------------------------- > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >
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