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From: | Alexander Kobel |
Subject: | Re: scaled lyrics |
Date: | Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:27:12 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 |
On 2011-11-15 10:29, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
Hello list, when I am typesetting christian/latin or german music, there are often passages with short notes and a lot of long syllables. The character 'M' is a quite long one and if you have the german word "schlem -- men", it also takes a lot of space. [...] But I don't like the look of the uneven scaled text. Has anyone an idea of a "softer" scaling function? Or has anyone another idea on this topic? [...]
Hi Jan-Peter,this might sound silly, but why not switch the font? I often write syllabic German music, too, so I know your problem, and I often just use a condensed font family.
E.g., the free DejaVu font family offers condensed serif variants.If you can, I also highly recommend that you get a cheap old version of the CorelDRAW suite (v6 or higher, I think, but just search the web to find out) on eBay or the like. It comes with a collection of about a thousand font variants, including ones with proper condensed shapes. A good share of these fonts are of pretty good quality, though I heard that serious typographers would beat me up for saying so. They may not have excellent hinting or headline variants, but I find them very suitable for some lyrics. You'll probably get TrueType and Type1 files without amazing features and huge character set, but it's really okay. Later versions (>= v13 and the Corel X suites, I think) also ship with an OpenType collection, but I did not get my hands on these so far.
Best, Alexander
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