Re: lilypond authors, release notes, announcements

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2011-01-05 12:58, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 05/01/2011 alle 11.36 +0100, Alexander Kobel ha scritto:
>> 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.
> 
> You mean something like this? (my 5 minute try, really horrible)
> 
> \version "2.13.45"
> 
> \markup {
>   \lower #.5 { \number 1 }
>   \musicglyph #"scripts.ustaccatissimo"
>   \lower #.5 { \number 1 }
>   \musicglyph #"scripts.ustaccatissimo"
>   \lower #.5 { \dynamic p }
>   \musicglyph #"noteheads.s0" \hspace #1
>   \musicglyph #"scripts.prall"
>   \semiflat
> }

13371p4wn3d, huh? ;-)

Yup, that's what I meant.  I know a couple of amateur musicians who
copied some musical symbols to replace single characters of their names
for their letterheads.  I can't think of a single one which doesn't look
ugly.  Sizes don't match, kerning (if that term is allowed for this)
does not match, it looks crowded...  Just like using about the whole
fonts folder for an A5 greeting card.

I'm aware that a good designer can do amazing stuff in this direction,
but this will need subtle quotations and resemblence to the symbols, not
just concatenating and rotating a few of them.  If someone's up to it -
well, then show us what you can do!

>> However, I'd certainly use a predefined command for the inclusion of
>> something like Valentin's logos from lilynet.net. 
> 
> That's a nice idea. Maybe we could provide a black&white logo also...

Still, I like James initial idea of a scripted logo.  But in the
meantime, this looks like a good alternative to me.
Isn't there an engraver application which has some inkpot-and-feather
logo? Something along this line.


Cheers,
Alexander