Re: lilypond authors, release notes, announcements

[James]

Hello

On 05/01/2011 10:36, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> On 2011-01-05 11:13, Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:09:27AM +0000, James wrote:
> > > Marc,
> > > What I think we need actually - slightly off topic - is a nice
> > > LilyPond-glyph similar in essence to when you see the word 'Latex'
> > > in a body of text. I suppose some would call it a 'logotype' or
> > > colophon.
> > >
> > > tagline = \markup { "Engraved by \musicglyph #"scripts.lilylogo" }
> >
> > I've mused about trying to create a logo using the markup
> > commands.  If you think about all the graphical ones, plus music
> > glyphs, there's a lot of options.  The "d" could be a rotated bass
> > clef, the ls could be compressed treble clefs, the p could be a
> > half note, etc.
>
> I tend not to like those assembled logos very much.  Most of the time,
> they end up too clumsy IMHO; more like something quickly hacked
> together, just for the sake of quoting musical symbols.

Everything in its place, but I think for this case I'd agree.

> However, I'd certainly use a predefined command for the inclusion of
> something like Valentin's logos from lilynet.net. [*]  (Sadly, I don't
> remember the correct address where I downloaded it from.  I mean the SVG
> sources of<http://www.lilynet.net/img/lilylogo.png>  and
> <http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L125xH100/lesite-d163a.png>.)
>   One might argue that the quaver looks childish, but IMHO it does in a
> very joyful and charming manner.  And I really like the lilys, but I'm
> not sure whether a full-colored logo is a good default choice.

No this isn't what I was referring to. Of course the whole lilypond 
'icon' with the green and white is ok for the 'logo' and I like the 
little 'happy quaver' but never really thought of a place for it; but I 
was thinking more of a 'lilypond' in some 
cursive-cum-signature-cum-all-joined-up script, but something 'created' 
as a glyph than just put together.

If you think of J S Bach's signature then that could be used as nice 
glyph on a tagline.

It was just the varsegno made me think of it.

James