Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Eric,

You might want to look at
<http://leighverlag.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mimicking-real-book-look.html>

Hope this helps!
Kieren.

On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:25 PM, Eric Albert <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm interested in creating jazz lead sheets in LilyPond. Here's an example of 
> what I'd like (scroll down for "On the Sunny Side of the Street"):
> 
>  
> http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31184/what-are-the-common-fonts-used-in-music
> 
> How much of the look and feel of this ("(SWING)", title, authors, clef, time 
> signature, notes, rests, chord names, etc.) can I reasonably expect to 
> re-create in LilyPond?
> 
> If it *is* possible to recreate much or all of this, how? That is, do I need 
> to buy/find a single font? A set of fonts? Do something else entirely?
> 
> One possibility I've found is JazzFont (to view the complete character sets, 
> click on "KEYSTROKES" in the rightmost blue box on the second line of boxes 
> in the top center of the page, then click on "Jazzfont for Windows", which is 
> down a bit on the right):
> 
>  www.jazzfont.com
> 
> If I were to buy JazzFont for Windows, could I use it with LilyPond to help 
> with my goal above? (I'm running Windows 7 Pro.) 
> 
> Answers to the above, or pointers to some completely different approach, or 
> telling me it's not possible are all welcome.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Eric
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