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Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond? |
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Fri, 4 Mar 2016 20:37:54 -0500 |
Hi Eric,
You might want to look at
<http://leighverlag.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mimicking-real-book-look.html>
Hope this helps!
Kieren.
On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:25 PM, Eric Albert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm interested in creating jazz lead sheets in LilyPond. Here's an example of
> what I'd like (scroll down for "On the Sunny Side of the Street"):
>
>
> http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31184/what-are-the-common-fonts-used-in-music
>
> How much of the look and feel of this ("(SWING)", title, authors, clef, time
> signature, notes, rests, chord names, etc.) can I reasonably expect to
> re-create in LilyPond?
>
> If it *is* possible to recreate much or all of this, how? That is, do I need
> to buy/find a single font? A set of fonts? Do something else entirely?
>
> One possibility I've found is JazzFont (to view the complete character sets,
> click on "KEYSTROKES" in the rightmost blue box on the second line of boxes
> in the top center of the page, then click on "Jazzfont for Windows", which is
> down a bit on the right):
>
> www.jazzfont.com
>
> If I were to buy JazzFont for Windows, could I use it with LilyPond to help
> with my goal above? (I'm running Windows 7 Pro.)
>
> Answers to the above, or pointers to some completely different approach, or
> telling me it's not possible are all welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Eric
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