Re: Half a \prall

[Hans Aberg]

On 17 Sep 2007, at 14:32, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> > Yes, that is the idea - I am using UTF-8 files in Xcode (Mac OS X  
> > 10.4.10). I have also found a Unicode font Euterpe that does it  
> > correctly:
> >   http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191
> >
> > I also found (replies in the Unicode mailing list) some other  
> > Unicode fonts, but U+1D19D is designed wrongly, as a Pralltriller,  
> > instead of having only on peak and valley:
> >   http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/music.html
> >   http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
> >   http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/math.html
> >   http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/musical_symbols
> > Cf.
> >   http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
> >   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
> >
> > They have many other useful musical symbols, though.
> >
> > So the question is how to choose musical symbols selectively from  
> > different fonts, and the make say ornament symbols from that.

> In general, the font handling library used in LilyPond will try to  
> find a matching font
> that contains the symbol.

So does Mac OS X. Probably a necessity, as I think a Unicode font  
only can contain a maximum of 2^16 = 65536 characters, whereas  
Unicode has more than 100000. So, in order to cover all Unicode  
characters, more than one font is needed.

> Otherwise you can specify the font-name explicitly, for example
> using a \markup{...} as shown in section "Font selection", at least  
> as the font works with
> Unicode.

Thank you. I will look it up.

After a brief look at these fonts, I think one may have to choose  
between them, to get the right glyphs. The state of the art. :-)

  Hans Åberg