Re: text accidentals [was Re: film score example]

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

2013/11/30 Josiah Boothby <address@hidden>:
> To clarify:
>
>> >> > Would you like to sponsor this?  For $20 i could add special
>> >> > accidentals to LilyPond font and adjust \flat, \sharp and
>> >> > \natural commands to use them (and maybe others like \semiflat,
>> >> > if i'll have time).
>> >>
>> >> Why not use the Unicode charpoints, like B♭, F♯ and so on?  They
>> >> are _supposed_ to go well with the text font and kern properly.
>> >
>> > I would gladly sponsor this, and have thought for a long time that
>> > E\flat should not in most cases require any additional effort (much
>> > less the considerable extra effort it currently requires) to look
>> > correct.
>>
>> It's great that you're willing to sponsor!
>> But, as your reply is below David's quoted message about Unicode
>> accidentals, i'm not sure what you'd like to sponsor - could you
>> clarify?
>> Unicode accidentals are supported now, but as i already wrote, they
>> look horrible in my opinon.
>
> I am interested in accidentals being usable in text markups in the form
> of \flat or \sharp, preferably including microtones and
> double-accidentals. I'll define "usable" here as being of a size and
> placement that is visually balanced and pleasing. It's possible that
> the best place to put them is in the music symbols charpoints of the
> LilyPond fonts and draw from them as needed; I think this is what David
> has suggested, but I know next to nothing about fonts from this angle.
> In fact, I can't say I'm particularly picky about the mechanics of how
> to make this work since this is so far outside of my areas of expertise.

ok, thanks for clarifying!

> If other folks are interested in joining in on the sponsorship, I don't
> object to help, but how do you prefer payment?

SEPA transfer if you're in EU - otherwise probably PayPal.
We'll see how to split the amount between sponsors when i'm finished -
i originally intended to do just flat, natural and sharp, so doing all
microtonal accidentals may take me extra time.

best,
Janek