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Re: MF fonts
From: |
Carl Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: MF fonts |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:54:49 -0700 |
On 2/27/11 4:09 AM, "Tim Sheasby" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. Will try to compile Emmentaler with a new narrow
> version of the MI but perhaps slightly deeper so it looks big enough.
> Examining an old but beautiful book I have has all notes the same width but
> the Mi seems to extend a tiny bit higher/lower than other notes. Probably for
> optical purposes.
> Otherwise I might take a short cut and redefine the size of the mi using the
> stencil-scale option.
Yet another possibility is to convince the shape-note community that your mi
shape is better.
A scan from your "beautiful" book, coupled with a .png of the current output
and a .png of the output if you just reshape the mi head in the current
Aiken font might be just the ticket.
There is a fasoli yahoo group: http://groups.google.com/group/fasoli
It's a private group, so you'll need to join.
There's also a website: http://www.hosorembo.com/Lily/Lilindex.html
There's a wiki page on shape note aesthetics:
http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/Shapenote_notehead_aesthetics
I ended up doing the shape note heads because I knew metafont (actually, I
learned metafont to do the note heads, IIRC). But I'm not a shape note
singer. So I'm not the best judge of aesthetics.
Previous discussion on shape note aesthetics can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1060
and
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=602
At any rate, I'd love to have your input in making shape note heads right.
Thanks,
Carl
- MF fonts, Tim Sheasby, 2011/02/26
- RE: MF fonts, James Lowe, 2011/02/26
- Re: MF fonts, Carl Sorensen, 2011/02/26
- Re: MF fonts, Xavier Scheuer, 2011/02/26
- Re: MF fonts, Carl Sorensen, 2011/02/26
- Re: MF fonts, Tim Sheasby, 2011/02/27
- Re: MF fonts,
Carl Sorensen <=
- Re: MF fonts, Tim Sheasby, 2011/02/27
- Re: MF fonts, Carl Sorensen, 2011/02/27
- Re: MF fonts, Tim Sheasby, 2011/02/27
- Re: MF fonts, Graham Percival, 2011/02/27
- Re: MF fonts, Tim Sheasby, 2011/02/28
- Re: MF fonts, Carl Sorensen, 2011/02/28