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From: | Nathan Ho |
Subject: | Re: Use jazz fonts in LilyPond? |
Date: | Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:10:21 -0800 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 |
On 2016-03-06 15:10, Eric Albert wrote:
I've been working from Leigh Verlag's page on faking a Real Book page in LilyPond (thanks to Kieren for the link): http://leighverlag.blogspot.ca/2015/12/mimicking-real-book-look.html That page answers many of my questions. I still have some font questions. Please forgive my ignorance of both LilyPond (this is my first project) and fonts in general (no experience other than changing fonts inside a Microsoft Word document). Can I use any jazz character font set with LilyPond? Or is there a magic order that the symbols need to be in?
Music fonts are not very well standardized. The only layout standard is SMuFL, which was developed in 2013 -- too new to be used in LilyPond, Sibelius, or Finale. The consequence is that in general, you can't take a music font intended for one program and use it in another because different programs expect different layouts. The Jazz Font plug won't fit into the LilyPond socket, and you'll have to use an adaptor.
The Jazz Font website claims compatibility with Sibelius and Finale. To my knowledge, I don't think anyone has written a LilyPond adaptor for one of those two formats.
Nathan
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