Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

[Hans Aberg]

On 29 Jul 2014, at 21:16, Graham Breed <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 29/07/14 15:18, Hans Aberg wrote:
> 
>> Graham Breed wrote a file for equal temperaments for an earlier version of 
>> LilyPond, which I was able to tweak for the latest version (discussed on the 
>> devel list). When using the currently available microtonal symbols, then 
>> also key signatures seemed to work fine - a problem in the past.
> 
> The latest code is here: https://bitbucket.org/x31eq/microlily
> 
> I thought it was up to date.  I can take patches if it isn’t.
...
> With 2.16.0, everything works except the accidentals sometimes crash the 
> barlines.

The one I made works with LilyPond 2.19.10 - just tested. It may be different 
from the one you have.

>> So it seems that all one has to do in order to get decent microtonality into 
>> LilyPond is to include this version of Graham’s file in the distribution and 
>> add microtonal symbols so that they can be called like the ones currently 
>> available.
> 
> Sagittal works for accidentals as a text font.  It should work for key 
> signatures as well, but I don't test that.  

At least in the past, I think that if one has not recompiled LilyPond for the 
font, key signatures won’t work. They do work with the built-in microtonal 
accidentals, though.

> I didn't use a music font because it was too much trouble to create a music 
> font with Sagittal. Also, it's possible to use strings for chained 
> accidentals with a text font.  This would be important for Extended Helmholtz 
> if anybody wired it up.

This was one I had in mind.

For those that do not know about these: it is basically a way to make sure that 
Just Intonation can be typeset; there is not enough of microtonal accidentals 
in the built-in set.