Re: There no ligatures in Kievan notation

[Monk Panteleimon]

> I second Han-Wen: Metafont should be used for that.  However, it
> doesn't prevent that you use a tracing program to get some coordinates
> which can be then imported to Metafont for a first draft.  On the
> other hand, it is probably faster to design a shape from scratch,
> based on high-resolution images, than fiddling around with meaningless
> coordinates which just describe the outline and give no help in
> adjusting the shape for various sizes.

I can send hardcopies of printed books to whoever will be doing the glyph 
designing, or I can scan at the highest resolution available to me and put a 
few images up for download. Which is better? I'd think a hardcopy would be 
since, it leaves less possibility of some aspect being left out, but it looks 
like it would have to go over seas. Of course, even the hardcopies are a 
little rough-looking, the music having originally been typeset rather than 
engraved, but they at least give the best idea of the intended form of each 
glyph, which forms seem generally to have been modelled on pen-strokes of 
some sort.

Fr. P