Re: Alternative music font

[Trevor Daniels]

Marc Hohl wrote Monday, December 21, 2009 10:08 AM


> Carl Sorensen schrieb:
> > Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list <at> xs4all.nl> writes:
> >
> >
> > > Op maandag 19-10-2009 om 15:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef 
> > > Simon
> > > Tatham:
> > >
> > >
> > > > It's interesting that you should mention that: that actually 
> > > > reminds
> > > > me of one of my specific issues with Feta, namely that the 
> > > > curved
> > > > centre line of its treble clef _does_ make it look to me as if 
> > > > it's
> > > > leaning over backwards. Gonville's straight-backed version 
> > > > feels
> > > > much more balanced to me.
> > > That would be a bug.  How many degrees would you need to rotate 
> > > it to
> > > get it straight, in your opinion?
> > Thanks to the great work on the SVG backend, I was able to do a 
> > test.
> >
> > I rotated the clef by 1, 2.5, and 5 degrees.
> >
> > Surprisingly, I could see small differences.  I'd think somewhere
> > between 1 and 2.5 degrees would be about right.  I like the 2.5 
> > degrees
> > best at the top of the clef, but I think the tail needs to be 
> > adjusted
> > a little bit to look right at 2.5 degrees.
> >
> > Even the 1 degree rotation appears better balanced IMO.
> Hello Carl,
>
> I played a bit with the mf sources, and changing dowstroke_dir
> from unitvector (14,-75) to (11,-75) seems to be a good choice, 
> what do
> you think?

I like it

Trevor