Re: [Denemo-devel] The Denemo font

[Richard Shann]

Yes, I am sure it is that font. We will want to include it with Denemo
only for installation on Windows systems, in which case it would become
a dependency of Denemo as far as Debian is concerned I guess.
*HOWEVER* all interested parties take note:
        The musical symbols are *only* in the FreeSerif font, not in the
FreeSans one. This means all Denemo text will be in a font with serifs,
which is not fashionable nowadays. (Personally, I find seriffed
typefaces more legible).

Alternatives:
                              * Get to grips with font-substitution.
                                (Needs a C-hacker)
                              * Hack the musical symbols section of the
                                FreeSerif font into the FreeSans font
                                and save the result as the new
                                denemo.ttf (requires patience with
                                fontforge).
                                
I can check in Denemo with musical symbols available for labels, display
text etc and you can try it out (I have an example too, the MM marking
label has some notes on it to give you the idea).

In case you are wondering why the lilypond fonts are not sufficient, it
is because they don't treat things like quarter notes as a single glyph
- that is they are not for writing sentences mentioning music signs,
which is the sort of thing we want to do in Denemo when we are
explaining something...
Comments please

and many thanks Josue for all the info, I will keep it in mind when we
decide which way to go.

Richard




On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 11:18 -0600, Josue Abarca wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:41:11AM +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > Someone called adrianj on irc #cairo has been really helpful. It seems
> > that what is happening is font-substitution. The actual font that has
> > the musical symbols is FreeSerif, and if you put
> ...
> 
> Are you talking about the font that is found in debian systems in:
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf ?
> 
> 
> > Before we launch into writing code to seek out installed fonts with the
> > desired music symbols it seems to me that we should package this font
> > with denemo, and work towards dropping denemo.ttf. (We can't instantly
> > do so because the highlighting method in the snippets needs
> > changing).
> 
> It would be great if I can use the "font file" that is already in
> Debian.
> 
> The file
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf
> 
> is part of the package ttf-freefont in debian, and it would be great
> if I can do something like:
> 
> ./configure --use-installed-system-font
> 
> The font is already available in Suse[0], gentoo[1], ubuntu[2] and
> Debian[3].
> 
> > 
> > I haven't found the licensing information about FreeSerif but I expect
> > it is ok.
> > 
> > Richard
> 
> Again assuming that the font is this one in debian:
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf :)
> 
> then the copyright information is here:
> 
> http://go.debian.net/CUz
> 
> Or in the the upstream's(original author) web site:
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
> 
> It seems to be
> Copyright owner: Copyright © 2002-2009 Free Software Foundation.
> License: GNU GPL v3 or later
> 
> Please always add the copyright owner and license of the files that
> are part of denemo to the AUTHORS file, that make the life of the
> package maintainer of denemo (me :P) easier .
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> [0] http://deb.li/3w6LV
> [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-fonts/freefont-ttf
> [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ttf-freefont
> [3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-freefont
> 
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