Re: Question: how may I create my own (accidental) glyphs?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 7/30/10 1:03 PM, "sereliya at yahoo dot com" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear LilyPond users,
> 
>   Greetings!
> 
> I have developed an alternative microtone system and would
> 
> like to create my own accidental glyphs.  Would anyone
> 
> happen to know how to proceed?  Your assistance is greatly
> 
> appreciated.
> 

You'll need to have a system capable of building lilypond.  If you're not on
some GNU/Linux distro you'll probably want to run LilyBuntu in a virtual
machine.  You can get information on that in the Contributors Guide for
version 2.13.

Your glyphs will be created in metafont.  I would expect your glyphs to be
created in the file mf/feta-accidentals.mf.

You should read the README file in mf/ for more information on the fonts.

In order to have your new glyphs added to the font, you'll probably need to
do

rm mf/out/* && make

You can read more about metafont by Googling for the metafont book.

Hope this helps,

Carl