Re: My own Figured Bass number set, where do I start?

[Shane Brandes]

I would gladly attempt to make new glyphs if someone would explain to
me how they are encoded and how to get them out of the source code. I
usually make ttf and otf for my foundries products.

Shane

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20/02/2012 14:18, Nils wrote:
>> my pusblisher wants baroque figured bass gylphs. They have the strokes in 
>> different places than the Lilypond versions.
>> I guess nobobdy did this so far, so I have to do it myself.
>
> Yes, we have a feature request
> (http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2042 ), but no one
> has done any work on it.
>
>> Where is the point in the code where I have to start? I want to do it right 
>> and use the same lilypond syntax like 4\+ or 6\\.
>
> I suppose that the proper way would be to create new glyphs in our fonts
> (using metafont, source file mf/feta-numbers.mf) and then adjust the
> format-bass-figure function (in scm/translation-functions.scm) to use
> those glyphs for the slashed figures.
>
> You could of course try to modify format-bass-figure without touching
> the fonts, but then it will always look like the figures in Robert
> Kelly's table, where a + or a ` is stacked onto a normal digit, clearly
> showing they are two different glyphs.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
>
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