Re: naming a glyph

[Freeman Gilmore]

James:

I have read this before.   I was thinking that if I place the ​accidentals in SMuFL local font file I could call them from there using the example form the article.    At this point I only have some ideas about the way the accidentals should look. I need to know how Lilypond handles microtonal fonts from SMuFL   I need to  use one or more accidentals per note.  Some of the accidentals in SMuFL are intended to be used this way; but I do not know if Lilypond will do this.  I need to try some things with this.    SMuFL give the specifications for designing fonts; which does not look that hard once I learn how to run the graphics program.

Thank you,

ƒg

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:55 AM, James.Correa <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Freeman,

If I understand you correct this might help you:

http://lilypondblog.org/2014/04/using-special-characters-from-smufl-fonts/

All the best,

James

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On May 20, 2018 11:39 PM, Freeman Gilmore <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Freeman,

Let us know what you re trying to do. Why do you want to create a glyph?

Are you new to lilypond? If so, welcome to the Pond!

Andrew

Andrew and others that have responded, thank you:

 

I will start over.   What I was trying to say is that the # (my example) is a new glyph to Lilypond; and it has the name “accidentals.sharp” and the code “is” (and others).   I am trying to understand this because I want to create some accidentals of my own.

 

I assume that the “#” is not ‘markup’.  I do not understand what ‘markup’ is; I do know that is has something to do with text.

 

Also, I know that some of the accident are created with markup. 

 

My original question was how is a glyph correctly named?  I have read mf/README several times I think I have that part.  

 

Then there is the code name, what is the correct way to name the code?   Why two names; why not just the code name?

 

For my use I would like to be able to use one or more glyphs with a note.    

 

I would like to start by using an unused accidental section of the SMuFL Unicode.

 

Thank you,

ƒg