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Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond?
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Eric Albert |
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Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond? |
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Sat, 05 Mar 2016 09:13:10 -0500 |
Hi Kieren,
Wow, that's a great help! I hadn't thought it was possible to emulate the
"title on bar lines" look. I can see LilyPond is *extremely* customizable.
-- Eric
>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
>________________________________
>
>Kieren MacMillan, composer
>⣠website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
>⣠email: address@hidden