Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?

[Urs Liska]

There is a difference between *notation* and *text* fonts.

Notation fonts are used for, well, notation, that is note heads, clefs,
articulations etc. (However, there are things like e.g. stems or beams
that are not glyhps from fonts but that are drawn directly by LilyPond).
The notation font also includes *some* textual elements, namely numbers
(for time signatures, fingerings or figured bass) and dynamic letters.
The notation font uses an internal mapping that is specific to LilyPond,
so you can only use a number of notation fonts that are specifically
designed for use with LilyPond (there are some exceptions but I wouldn't
mention them now).

Textual elements are printed using standard text fonts. And if you have
a font that provides complete chord symbols as text characters you can
use them as text elements with \markup.
You will find the relevant information below
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/text

HTH
Urs

Am 07.03.2016 um 00:10 schrieb Eric Albert:
> I've been working from Leigh Verlag's page on faking a Real Book page in 
> LilyPond (thanks to Kieren for the link):
>
>   http://leighverlag.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mimicking-real-book-look.html
>
> That page answers many of my questions. I still have some font questions. 
> Please forgive my ignorance of both LilyPond (this is my first project) and 
> fonts in general (no experience other than changing fonts inside a Microsoft 
> Word document).
>
> Can I use any jazz character font set with LilyPond? Or is there a magic 
> order that the symbols need to be in?
>
> I like the look of the commercial product 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
>
> I see that this font set has several subsets (pardon the wrong language), 
> including one ("JazzCord") that appears to map single character codes to 
> things such as "-7(b5)". Can this feature be uses with LilyPond? Or is it 
> easier to use LilyPond with one character code mapping to a single character?
>
> I guess the basic question is: Could I use this font set productively with 
> LilyPond? Or should I stick to LilyJazz and LilyJazzText?
>
> I realize my questions may be incoherent or incomprehensible. My apologies. I 
> just installed by first font (Windows 7 Pro) five minutes ago...
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Eric
>
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