Re: MF fonts

[Carl Sorensen]

On 2/27/11 4:09 AM, "Tim Sheasby" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions. Will try to compile Emmentaler with a new narrow
> version of the MI but perhaps slightly deeper so it looks big enough.
> Examining an old but beautiful book I have has all notes the same width but
> the Mi seems to extend a tiny bit higher/lower than other notes. Probably for
> optical purposes.
> Otherwise I might take a short cut and redefine the size of the mi using the
> stencil-scale option.

Yet another possibility is to convince the shape-note community that your mi
shape is better.

A scan from your "beautiful" book, coupled with a .png of the current output
and a .png of the output if you just reshape the mi head in the current
Aiken font might be just the ticket.

There is a fasoli yahoo group: http://groups.google.com/group/fasoli

It's a private group, so you'll need to join.

There's also a website: http://www.hosorembo.com/Lily/Lilindex.html

There's a wiki page on shape note aesthetics:
http://wiki.lilynet.net/index.php/Shapenote_notehead_aesthetics

I ended up doing the shape note heads because I knew metafont (actually, I
learned metafont to do the note heads, IIRC).  But I'm not a shape note
singer.  So I'm not the best judge of aesthetics.

Previous discussion on shape note aesthetics can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1060

and

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=602

At any rate, I'd love to have your input in making shape note heads right.

Thanks,

Carl