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

[Patrick McCarty]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>
> [..]
>
> Let me try to see if I can hack up something that is less hacky.

If I am understanding correctly, the problem is that no workaround for
loading Gonville was added to scm/font.scm (search for
feta-alphabet-size-vector).

I also added a tracker issue for this problem a few days ago:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1021

-Patrick