using a custom music font

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been using lilypond for a bit now, and am very impressed by its
> output.  I've gotten used to the default settings, and would now like to
> venture into some custom tweaking (just to make my scores a little more
> individualistic).  I have a custom music font that I created that I use
> with Finale, and I would like to incorporate it into my lilypond scores.
> I suspect this may be a bit of a complicated endeavour (i.e. to get the
> font mappings correct, plus it seems that there are multiple instances
> of the feta font for different sizes, etc.), but I'm wondering if anyone
> has given this a try and/or may be able to offer some advice or
> pointers.  Thanks for any help.

You might want to load up a copy of feta20.pfa (used for the default
sizes) and your own font into fontforge, and try to copy & paste some
glyphs from your own font into feta.
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