Re: Creating a font usable in Finale and Sibelius

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:59:03 +0200
> From: Valentin Villenave <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Creating a font usable in Finale and Sibelius
> Programs
> To: Josh Nichols <address@hidden>
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Josh Nichols <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > I really enjoy the look and feel of the LilyPond Feta
> font, but I would like
> > to use it in programs that can use other fonts like
> Sibelius.
> 
> This question has been asked a number of times (including
> by yourself ;-)
> see for instance
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10/msg00762.html
> 
> > I would really like to make this available and
> continue the excellence that
> > LilyPond and Feta font have created, minus the complex
> language and
> > programming necessary to make it happen.
> 
> IMNSHO, this is Not A Good Idea (tm).
> The Feta font is only a tiny tiny part of what makes
> LilyPond
> "excellent". And the Lily language really is not so
> complex.

Even so, that's no reason to abstain from making the 
Feta font available/usable in Sibelius/Finale.

> 
> When I started using LilyPond, I was writing an opera and I
> already
> had engraved about 200 pages in Sibelius. Then I met
> LilyPond.
> 
> - For a while I tried to continue using Sibelius and
> importing the
> Feta font (just like you). That didn't work.

Why not?  If it's just a matter of matching the staff line weights 
to the font, as was mentioned in another email, that seems trivial.