Re: Fonts for tablature?

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 16 août 2023 à 01:50, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> a écrit :



If you look at https://musescore.org/sites/musescore.org/files/2020-05/lute-tab-bug.png (don't worry about the colours) there's a font which I like.  A similar font is used in abctab2ps (it's called "frFrancisque" there), and you can see it in use at https://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/sample.png

Is a similar font available for Lilypond?    There are unicode glyphs at

https://www.w3.org/2019/03/smufl13/tables/french-and-english-renaissance-lute-tablature.html

but these are in fact "private use characters".

Some people have created fonts where these characters of a SMuFL font are moved to the normal code points for a, b, c, ... You should be able to use such a font (adding it to the font search path with ly:font-config-add-file). https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user-fr/2019-03/msg00062.html