Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.01.2013 11:48, schrieb Nick Payne:
> On 07/01/13 21:36, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Am 07.01.2013 11:24, schrieb Andrew Bernard:
> > > Greetings from Australia,
> > >
> > > So what font is it, actually? You did not mention.
> > I didn't mention because it is visible in the pdf...
> > But of course it would have been polite to explicitely mention Adobe 
> > Minion Pro.
> >
> > What I like about it is
> > - the 'modern' appearance (compared to e.g. LilyPond's Century 
> > Schoolbook
> > - its variety of font faces,
> > - especially the option of having a condensed version that harmonizes 
> > well with LilyPond's 'weight'.
>
> The Minion Pro font is bundled by Adobe with Adobe Reader. If you 
> install Reader on Linux, the font files are copied to 
> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font (that's where they are on my system), 
> and if you install Reader on Windows, they are copied to C:\Program 
> Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Resource\Font, or some similar path depending 
> on the version of Reader.
Ah, that's interesting.
But the font is still non-free (in terms of Free Documentation), and 
especially there are only the four basic font faces included and not the 
other 12 ones (medium, semibold, condensed and its combinations)

Best
Urs
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