Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/31/09 7:45 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen schrieb:
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>> On 12/31/09 6:37 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Carl Sorensen schrieb:
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>>>> On 12/30/09 7:42 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> Carl Sorensen schrieb:
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>>>> OK, I've attached a 300 dpi png and with the clef rotated from 0 to 4
>>>> degrees.
>>>> 
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>>> Thanks for your work, Carl.
>>>    
>>>> An Inkscape svg is available at
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.et.byu.edu/~sorensen/cleftest.svg
>>>> 
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>>> OT: This is strange; in the browser, it looks ok, but with inkscape, the
>>> staff lines are missing.
>>>    
>> 
>> What version of inkscape are you using?  Older versions didn't handle
>> default colors according to the specification.  I opened the file in my
>> browser, and saved it, then opened it in inkscape, and everything was fine.
>>  
> inkscape V 0.46. I did it via saving directly from your link,
> and via saving through the browser, with identical results.

I'm using 0.46-devel.


>> 
>> Your opinions exactly match mine -- 1.5 or 2.0 with a slight shift of the
>> bulb.  But I think I prefer 1.5.
>>  
> Ok, so I'll go for this. It isn't as easy as I thought, because I cannot
> just rotate the whole picture, because the path is too complex for metafont.
> So I'll have to transform every point and draw thereafter. It seems to
> work, but
> I  have to change some explicit drawing angles accordingly and bring it into
> a less hackish form - but I think this will come next year ;-)

Well, I'm putting most of my work off to next year, too.

> 
> Best wishes!
> 

And to you!

Carl