Re: [Denemo-devel] Modifying Denemo.ttf

[Richard Shann]

I have pushed the new font to git. You can see it on the notes and rests
toolbar and in the Notes/Rests->xxx Duration menus and the tooltips for
the help for these. For me, they are still way too small - perhaps
inside LibreOffice they looked differently, or you just have better
eyesight!

I think the glyphs need to be made into caricatures of the real music
shapes, so that they are instantly distinguishable at the default font
size. Big noteheads and short stems, and bulging out of the allowed
space sideways if need be - we can always put spaces around them. Mostly
also I think they need lifting up to be on the line - we can steal a bit
of height by dropping some of them a bit below the line if needed (e.g.
to get a lot of flags in).

This is just my take on the appearance - I've attached one of the
tooltips as an example, the little mark that looks a bit like a comma is
actually a 1/8th rest in the new font. Let me know what you think, and
anyone else is welcome to comment on what would be a good way forward.

Richard



On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 08:22 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On 07/31/2011 05:49 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 08:23 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> >>> Do you want me to modify the font so that the Note and Rest entry
> >>> looks
> >>> correct or do you want me to modify the C code so that it points to
> >>> the
> >>> correct font?
> >> I can do the C code (I have already got samples in generate_source.c
> > I have checked in generate_source.c (without checking in the files it
> > generates) so that you can use it to test your new glyphs. It needs
> > tweaking where they are used in some tooltips.
> 
> Thanks,
> I am still tweaking them. I should be done Monday night. I don't have 
> any time to work on it today. I have been testing the fonts in 
> LibreOffice. I created a document with all the rest and notes and 
> compare them next to text from the same font. I will submit something 
> Monday night (You will see it Tuesday morning:)
> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> 
> >
> >>   and
> >> utils.c, view.c which is inactivated).
> >> If you can just work on the music symbols block in Denemo2.ttf so that
> >> they look legible when included in text - an example is the label for
> >> the Metronome Mark).
> > specifically the utf8 codes used in generate_source.c are mentioned
> > there:
> >
> > #define NOTE0 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x9D"
> > #define NOTE1 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x9E"
> > #define NOTE2 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x9F"
> > #define NOTE3 "\xF0\x9D\x85\xA0"
> > #define NOTE4 "\xF0\x9D\x85\xA1"
> > #define NOTE5 "\xF0\x9D\x85\xA2"
> > #define NOTE6 "\xF0\x9D\x85\xA3"
> > #define NOTE7 "\xF0\x9D\x85\xA4"
> > #define NOTE8 "\xF0\x9D\x85\xA5"
> >
> > #define REST0 "\xF0\x9D\x84\xBB"
> > #define REST1 "\xF0\x9D\x84\xBC"
> > #define REST2 "\xF0\x9D\x84\xBD"
> > #define REST3 "\xF0\x9D\x84\xBE"
> > #define REST4 "\xF0\x9D\x84\xBF"
> > #define REST5 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x80"
> > #define REST6 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x81"
> > #define REST7 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x82"
> > #define REST8 "\xF0\x9D\x85\x83"
> >
> > In fact the 256th note and rest are not assigned values by unicode.org
> > AFAIK, so we have to decide what to display there.
> > Other glyphs in the music symbols block may need to be tweaked if we
> > want to use them for labelling things in the Denemo display, but these
> > are the priority.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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