Re: Sample document to show music fonts

[Urs Liska]

Am 20.09.2018 um 10:26 schrieb foxfanfare:
> Urs Liska-3 wrote
> > Now that there seems to be a certain common understanding of my initial
> > idea, may I repeat my request for someone to provide a suitable default
> > sample document?
> > Coming up with a score that provides representative details with as
> > little content as possible does require some creativity, and it would be
> > a good idea if someone else deals with that so I can spend my time with
> > the coding itself.
> Anyone motivated?
> https://curatingsubjects.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/79b.gif
>
> Joke apart, would you think possible/interesting to have small excerpts in
> the window preview and options to select a musical time or style in a tab
> which will propose different scores? One can then typeset an excerpt of a
> renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, xxth, etc... score, which all
> combined would represent nearly all the interesting glyphs.
>
> For some fonts, musical context is important. The same idea was used here:
> https://elbsound.studio/music-font-comparison.php?font=Aloisen%20New

This is a very good idea.
I have now implemented the option to use custom files as can be seen 
here: 
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/pull/1075#issuecomment-423093733 
(the screencast is probably too large for the list so I refer to that 
place).
The inherent limitation is that the custom files should not have a 
\paper block because that will override the font settings. So you can't 
simply pick any existing file, but I think that is neglectable since 
there will be the tool to insert the font choosing code into the 
document, so you can easily go *that* way to apply fonts to arbitrary 
documents.

There could conveniently be a ComboBox beside the custom file URL edit 
to make the provided samples available.

I will implement this but ask everybody to provide dedicated examples of 
different styles.

Thanks
Urs

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