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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: Sample document to show music fonts |
Date: | Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:45:25 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Am 18.09.2018 um 21:08 schrieb Aaron Hill:
On 2018-09-18 4:58 am, Andrew Bernard wrote:Hi Urs, I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website: https://www.musictypefoundry.com/product/mtf-cadence Much rather this than a piece of music. Any sample of music will beirrelevant to some large subset of people. For example, my new complexity stuff would just annoy people, and I don't want to see a sample of Brahms(no disrespect to Brahms!!). Perhaps you could put music examples on a separate website, not in the program. On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 20:52, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:I'm looking for a nice template document that can be used to demonstratea music font. It should not be too "heavy", and ideally it would showoff the font at a glance within the space seen in the attached screenshot.Another idea: make it customizable. I doubt there is ever going to be a one-size-fits-all preview template for fonts. Of course, it's more work to support this, but providing you are shelling out to LilyPond behind the scenes to render the preview live, then allowing the end-user to provide a custom template would address concerns from folks who work in more esoteric branches of notation.
Although compelling I think this would be over the top.a) if someone wants to see music fonts with specific music they can simply use an existing or create a new document and test the fonts with it. b) These sample documents will usually not be generated live but are cached, so in 95% of the cases (except the first time a new font is installed) an existing PDF will be loaded.
So I think I'll go with the suggestion to create some sort of "glyph matrix", showing the font elements without context.
I think the updated dialog will be used much more regularly than the previous one, not only because the available (music but especially text) fonts are now nicely listed and displayed, but also because it will additionally provide the tools to *select* fonts (i.e. create the appropriate LilyPond code).
Urs
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