Re: [Denemo-devel] Modifying Denemo.ttf

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 11:11 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> If you like i can do the fontforge thing. Just let me know exactly what you 
> want done.

Thanks. I think I have worked out what could be done. First if you look
at the two screenshots of the directives menu (attached) you can see the
effect I am after in the label to the Metronome marking command. The 1/4
notes are bolder, more readable in the flow of the text (at the expense
of being a proportionate shape such as you would want to see in a piece
of music). Basically, I have expanded the size as much as possible
without causing the whole font to increase in size, and increased the
notehead over the stem. (If you just scale the note up, once you go too
high all the menu items start moving apart, as if you had selected a
larger typeface).
So, my procedure was to
take /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
and use fontforge merge to merge in FreeSerif.ttf which is the one with
the musical symbols. Then I changed the shape of the quarter note and
changed the name of the font to Denemo and did generate fonts to the
Denemo.ttf

Denemo itself needs changes so that it expects this new font, these are
mostly trivial, but the difficult bit I have sorted out and have the
code ready and working.

If you are up for altering the music glyphs so they work in labels that
would be great. I have a font with the 1/4 note you see, so it would be
quicker to start from that. It is 1.3Mb - how to send it?

Richard







> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T
> 
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >Ah, I think I have the answer: instead of Save in fontforge you have to
> >do Generate Fonts.
> >Richard
> >
> >On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 11:42 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> >> Jeremiah (or anyone else who knows about fonts)
> >> 
> >>  I loaded Denemo.ttf into fontforge, modified a glyph, saved it (it
> >> insisted this was Save As) and then did a make install. The program does
> >> not find the font.
> >> (In fact, in another experiment, I
> >> renamed /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/denemo/Denemo.ttf to try and
> >> hide it and found that it was opened by the program anyway; and also I
> >> found that the system installed font is used even if you configure for
> >> installing locally in your home directory).
> >> 
> >> So, Question: how do you modify the Denemo.ttf font and get it to work?
> >> Supplementary question, why is the fontforge .sfd file in git? Should
> >> that be edited first?
> >> 
> >> Richard
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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