Re: G clef changes [was: Re: Alternative music font]

[Marc Hohl]

Carl Sorensen schrieb:
> On 1/1/10 2:52 AM, "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
> > Carl Sorensen schrieb:
> >     
> > > [...]
> > >       
> > > > Ok, so I'll go for this. It isn't as easy as I thought, because I cannot
> > > > just rotate the whole picture, because the path is too complex for metafont.
> > > > So I'll have to transform every point and draw thereafter. It seems to
> > > > work, but
> > > > I  have to change some explicit drawing angles accordingly and bring it into
> > > > a less hackish form - but I think this will come next year ;-)
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > Well, I'm putting most of my work off to next year, too.
> > >  
> > >       
> > Back again!
> > I managed to describe the transformation in a more elegant way
> > and the result looks (after initially rotating 1.5 degrees in the
> > wrong direction!) very pleasing.
> >
> > What should be the next step? Shall I create a patch and send it to you,
> > or should this go to rietveld? Should we wait for more opinions to come
> > in?
> >     
>
> IIUC, you should do the following:
>
> 1) Make a sample at 1200 dpi and post it somewhere so that we can be
> satisfied that it looks right at 1200 dpi.
>   
Ok, I used the same example and created a sample page.
It is available as a 1200 dpi png picture at:

http://www.hohlart.de/marc/gcleftest.png

Please ignore the message about the clef in the first line.
> 2) Either send me a patch so that I can post it on rietveld, or post it
> yourself on rietveld.
>   
As I don't have prepared everything for posting at rietveld, I
would ask you do upload this patch for me.

Thanks in advance

Marc
> 3) Wait for approval, probably by Han-Wen and Jan, since they are the core
> designers of the font.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
>
>

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