Re: lilyglyphs LaTeX package

[Urs Liska]

Hi Reinhold,

thanks for these ideas.

Am 23.08.2012 16:03, schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> On 15/08/2012 17:34, Urs Liska wrote:
> > ...
> Since I need those glyphs (mainly the dynamics, but also accent etc.) in
> a critical report myself, I took a look at the package.
Thanks
> One thing I noticed is that to print dynamics and numbers, there is no
> need to resolve to their unicode number. One can simply change the font
> to emmentaler and then print the normal letters/digits.
Interestingly, this is an idea I had for myself last week, but couldn't 
verify without a computer (see the GitHub issues that I could comment 
from the mobile ...). So thank you for your examples.
> In particular, I
> would suggest:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> % Print some text in the emmentaler font. Works for the dynamic letters
> and the digits:
> \newcommand{\lilyText}[2][1.4]{{\fontspec[Scale=#1]{Emmentaler-11}{#2}}}
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> % Numbers and Dynamics %
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \newcommand{\lilyNumber}[2][1.35]{\lilyText[#1]{#2}}
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> You can then print any dynamics as e.g. \lilyText{sffpzm}. And the
> definition of the dynamics can also be changed to use \lilyText instead
> of printing each letter separately.
>
>
> And, I'm missing a \lilyFP command for forte-piano (i.e. start the note
> in forte, and then quickly go to piano, kind of like an accent, but not
> as sharp), \lilyFZ, \lilyFFZ and \lilyPF (all of which are used in the
> Schubert piece I'm currently editing).
Well, if you want push access to the repository, you could add these 
yourself.
In the long run this is what I intend anyway. But first there should be 
decisions about the general issues (that affect syntax).
I'll soon start upon this ...
> Time signatures (fractions) can be easily produced by
> \lilyTimeSignature{3}{4} using the following definition:
>
> % general \time n/m command (prints time signature as a fraction in
> emmentaler font)
> \newcommand*{\lilyTimeSignature}[3][0.9]{$\frac{\mbox{\lilyText[#1]{#2}}}{\mbox{\lilyText[#1]{#3}}}$}
Well, I didn't have a computer the last two weeks, but read some texts 
about latex. And what you suggest is about what I thought about also 
recently ;-)
Since the plus sign is also directly accessible you can even write
    \lilyTimeSignature{3+7}{4}
easily.

I won't immediately incorporate it though because there has to be some 
more thinking about the parametrization of scaling and placing. I'd like 
to put these things right (as well as the option to integrate a plain 
latex solution) before adding anything new.
> BTW, the installation of the font was really as simple as you describe:
> 1) Copy the emmentaler-*.otf files to ~/.fonts
> 2) run fc-cache
Nice, but there is also one more thing to check:
fontspec is smart enough to select the correct optical sizes for optical 
font families from Adobe (so if I write \scriptsize I automatically find 
the 'XX caption' font in the PDF). It would be nice if this worked for 
Emmentaler also, and if it does one should include all the font files 
instead of only one.

As mentioned I'll soon get back to this package ...

Best
Urs
> Cheers,
> Reinhold