Re: Clarification of 'font' usage to use Gonville over Feta

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Simon Tatham <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I went over to the gonville page, and I like the way it looks, and
>> have to concur that we made Feta (perhaps overly) ornate.
>>
>> Just a small comment on the flags: I think gonville could be improved
>> by making the final flag 16th (both up and down) and higher note
>> values slightly smaller.  Since the last flag has no following flag to
>> counter balance it, it looks a bit out of proportion.
>
> Thank you for the comment! Yes, I think there was mild criticism of
> the flags when I initially mentioned Gonville on this list; I
> regrettably haven't got round to looking at them again, but I still
> mean to...
>
> Meanwhile, I've just had another go at making Lilypond (2.13.14)
> work with Gonville, with a view to updating the Gonville web page to
> supersede my current hacky installation instructions. I was able to
> get most of the musical glyphs to appear in Gonville, but I haven't
> worked out how to get the ASCII parts of the font - the time
> signature and dynamics letters - to switch over as seamlessly.
>
> I attach my test input files. 'test.ly' is the starting point,
> before I do anything to the font configuration; 'testg.ly' is

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Let me try to see if I can hack up something that is less hacky.


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