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Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook? |
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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:17:25 +0100 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Is it for the web too?
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> Beg to differ. Formatting for electronic display of music is one of
>> the more important application areas for LilyPond.
>
> Beg to differ, too. A `web font' is essentially a font suitable for a
> computer display with a (quite) low resolution. In particular, such a
> font contains hints to intentionally distort the glyph shapes, making
> them render fine on such devices.
>
> Lilypond fonts and its other graphical objects like slurs don't do
> this. It looks extremely ugly if you get `crystal clear' rendering of
> a display font like Arial (or probably even an embedded bitmap for the
> given PPEM value), while the rest of the score appears fuzzy.
That means that we probably should be focusing about how we can get
reasonable hinting for Feta.
Tablets and/or electronic ink are becoming increasingly important
players in music.
<URL:http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57546915-1/orchestra-swaps-sheet-music-for-the-galaxy-note-10.1/>
Now Feta has the advantage of following traditional music type shapes,
and those are designed for low resolution anyway as stamping with a type
does not really allow for integrated hairline shapes: fine lines have to
be etched separately.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, (continued)
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Dave Crossland, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Eben Sorkin, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, David Kastrup, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, David Kastrup, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Eben Sorkin, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Janek WarchoĊ, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, David Kastrup, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09
- Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?, Urs Liska, 2013/01/09