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From: | Abraham Lee |
Subject: | Re: Feedback Request for Music Fonts |
Date: | Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:21:36 -0006 |
Joram,
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Noeck <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Abraham, thanks for your reply.
\version "2.19.14" \transpose c c' { % default (Century Schoolbook) \tuplet 3/2 { a8 a a } % bold (Century Schoolbook) - closer to Bravura \override TupletNumber.font-series = #'bold \tuplet 3/2 { a a a } % from Emmentaler (bold numbers) - your suggestion \override TupletNumber.font-encoding = #'fetaText \override TupletNumber.font-size = #-4 \tuplet 3/2 { a a a } % tuplet number from Bravura (U+E883) - what I wanted! \override TupletNumber.font-name = "Bravura" \override TupletNumber.font-size = #3.5 \override TupletNumber #'text = "ξΆƒ" \tuplet 3/2 { a a a } } This example shows four different tuplet numbers. The last one is what I wanted: the dedicated Bravura tuplet number on code point U+E883. To achieve that I had to put Bravura in /usr/share/fonts. I was wondering why installing it under Ubuntu does not work and copying into /usr/share/fonts of the LP directory structure does not work, neither.From my experience, LP only looks for Century Schoolbook and the music/brace fonts in that folder. Any other text font should be installed in a regular system location. On Ubuntu, if you put Bravura in "/home/YOUR_USER_NAME/.local/share/fonts", then you should be able to do what you tried above (manually, of course).A real solution would be if this number would be calculated automatically. But I couldn't get it to work: \override TupletNumber #'text = #(integer->char (+ 59520 (tuplet-number::calc-denominator-text))) I am trying that out, because it would help to get a consistent style for the new fonts including the text font part.I agree. That is a great idea! I don't have enough Scheme experience to know how to modify the text property like that, but that would certainly be very nice. On the other hand, I could just create a simple tuplet numerals file for your needs :) It would probably be better to access the glyphs from the complete Bravura font file, but sometimes you've got to take measures into your own hands and try something simpler. I doubt Steinberg will ever be changing those glyphs, so it's probably a safe bet.Just to share what I found yesterday: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain But I am not really convinced (there are some irregularities e.g. in the letter a).2) Do you or does anyone know text fonts similar to the ones used in many old scores, like here: http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7f/IMSLP00115-Chopin_-_Ballade_No1.pdfI've often looked for some nice fonts like those. A nice one I've found is called "OldStandardTT". It's free and supports an extensive character set including Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/old-standard-TTYeah, that one looks nice, but I agree that it's not as well constructed as we would like.
Regards,Abraham
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