RE: Kievan square notation in LilyPond

[James Lowe]

Hello,

)-----Original Message-----
)From: Aleksandr Andreev [mailto:address@hidden
)Sent: 17 June 2011 18:02
)To: James Lowe
)Cc: address@hidden
)Subject: Re: Kievan square notation in LilyPond
)
)James wrote:
)
)> It's crude (but effective), you either sym link the font dirs to point to the
)Gonville stuff (which is supplied via a zip/tgz file that you extract in situ) 
or
)as in the case of windows and mac you rename the old font dir and move
)the goneville one in its place.
)>
)
)This sounds like a hack, IIUC. What we'd like to do is to get Kievan added
)to LilyPond permanently (obviously, if the development team is in
)support of the idea). The rationale behind this is twofold: first, there are
)more and more people typesetting chant and more and more of them are
)doing it in LilyPond. LilyPond, after all, has the particular advantages of
)being flexible enough to support chant and being the only software
)affordable for most churches.
)
)Second, we're planning on releasing an entire library of chant online (in a
)format similar to the Mutopia project). It will all be in LilyPond and a good
)chunk of it will be in Kievan notation.
)
)It would be nice if the end user could use the source files on our site more
)or less out of the box.
)
)So I think the strategy I will pursue is to add the necessary glyphs to Feta.
)
)Thanks for the feedback,
)

[James' reply:] 
No problem. Be aware we have a tracker item for this 'issue' already.

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1494

So we can add this to that.

James