Re: new font? (was "Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid")

[Urs Liska]

Am 8. Februar 2015 21:56:28 MEZ, schrieb tisimst <address@hidden>:
>Conor, et. al.,
>
>Looking closely at the score, I don't believe the staff lines are
>pre-fixed at all, since I can see variable spacing. I can't say for
>anything beyond the one page in the pdf, of course. My experience tells
>me that LilyPond can manage just about anything I throw at it :)
>
>As for making the font, it wouldn't be that difficult. Create missing
>glyphs will be relatively easy since it's a hand-writing style, so I
>wouldn't need a lot of reference material. It would take some time and
>work, however, so if there's enough interest in it, some financial
>sponsoring would be very helpful, though not required.
>
>Cool idea, Kieren! Where is this sample from?
>

Here's the whole thing:
Http://beautifulscores.net/fried/fullscore.pdf 

>-Abraham
>
>Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Conor Cook [via Lilypond]
><address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> It looks like an extremely neat handwritten score, but probably 
>> written on staves that were already set, space-wise.  I wonder if it 
>> could be modified for the purposes of Lilypond, while retaining its 
>> distinct features. 
>> 
>> ~Conor 
>> 
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
>> > From: Kieren MacMillan <[hidden email]> 
>> > To: Urs Liska <[hidden email]>, Abraham Lee <[hidden email]> 
>> > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <[hidden email]> 
>> > Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 11:25:13 -0500 
>> > Subject: new font? (was "Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid") 
>> > Hi Urs, 
>> > 
>> >>> I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that
>(partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska
>in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/),
>including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog
>post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . 
>> > 
>> > On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… 
>;) 
>> >
><http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf> 
>> > 
>> > Cheers, 
>> > Kieren. 
>> > _______________________ 
>> > 
>> > Kieren MacMillan, composer 
>> > www:  <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info> 
>> > email:  [hidden email] 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
>> > From: Urs Liska <[hidden email]> 
>> > To: Kieren MacMillan <[hidden email]>, Abraham Lee <[hidden email]>
>
>> > Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List <[hidden email]> 
>> > Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:43:37 +0100 
>> > Subject: Re: new font? (was "Re: Gridly: simple Segmented Grid") 
>> > 
>> > Am 08.02.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: 
>> >> 
>> >> Hi Urs, 
>> >> 
>> >>>> I just pushed to github Gridly, a small LIlyPond library that
>(partly) implements the segmented grid approach described by Urs Liska
>in his blog post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/10/segment-grid/),
>including some of the ideas proposed by Jan-Peter Voigt in his blog
>post (http://lilypondblog.org/2014/07/trees-music-and-lilypond/) . 
>> >> 
>> >> On a related note, I found Abraham’s next awesome Lilypond font… 
>;) 
>> >>
><http://lilypondblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sample-page.pdf> 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Hm, I don't find this so awesome, tends to be not so readable ;-) 
>> > And it seems to encourage making errors or mixing staves (e.g.
>writing articulations between staves without clear attribution ;-) 
>> > 
>> > Urs 
>> > 
>> >> 
>> >> Cheers, 
>> >> Kieren. 
>> >> _______________________ 
>> >> 
>> >> Kieren MacMillan, composer 
>> >> www:  <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info> 
>> >> email:  [hidden email]
>> 
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