Question for all LilyPond users (especially power users)

[tisimst]

Greetings, All!

I have worked out a very nice way to switch between notation fonts in
LilyPond, both on a global document level and a local usage level. Up until
now, there were only a couple of music fonts available that were really
usable on a professional level: /Emmentaler/ (the default, built-in font)
and /Gonville/. There are also /LilyJAZZ/ and /Bravura/ (a SMuFL-compliant
font), but they require some serious hacks to make them work and they have
trouble with even some basic notation elements (like tempo markings,
arpeggios, etc.).

I am pleased to announce that I have several new music fonts, both in OTF
and SVG formats, that I'd like people to be able to use, but this requires a
patch to a single file, so anyone wanting to patch the file can do it with
little effort. It makes using other fonts as easy as putting a single
"\include" statement at the top of a .ly file. I use them all the time, but
I really want to share with the community that has shared so much with me.

*My question is this: /Is anyone interested in this?/*

I know that the notation font is a small part of the way a score looks, but
I think we can all recall a time when a score just didn't look that good and
it was because of the notation elements, not just the score layout.

And, just so you know, I have LilyJAZZ (including all the latest and
greatest efforts for chords and a bunch of missing articulations,
characters, etc.) and Bravura (my version is called /Profondo/, for OFL
licensing reasons) working perfectly as alternate music fonts. In addition,
these all provide access to all the ancient notation glyphs as well, so
nothing is lost (except for Gonville, which I haven't taken the time to
update at all).

I eagerly await your responses!

Happily Engraving,
Abraham



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