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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook? |
Date: | Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:47:35 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 |
Am 09.01.2013 19:11, schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
I'm rather looking for a free alternative to be shared publicly ....That's what i mean. Free software needs funding too :) On 9 Jan 2013, at 08:47, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:Precisely. It makes sense to fund a public resource. If you see something close to what you want Playfair for example, you could ask the designer to make a version with less contrast as Libre software and fund that work. He probably has a lower contrast version already.Actually, I would rather like to have a font which exactly clones the old lyrics font. But this is probably me only.
This points to one problem I see with this approach:If one wanted to create something new (or rework something existing) there would be _much_ discussion to do. And I don't know if this would lead to some agreement. I recall the heated debate when Janek retouched the single glyph of the treble clef and don't dare to imagine the potential conflicts when it comes to a whole font. Basically everybody in this discussion has different needs and opinions. What a new font would imply wouldn't be less than a new visual appearance for LilyPond (even if considered as an optional addition).
I'm afraid that's way over my head to engage in (at least currently). Best Urs
Werner
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