Re: Sample document to show music fonts

[Aaron Hill]

On 2018-09-18 4:58 am, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Hi Urs,
>
> I would like to set the glyph set as per Abraham Lee's foundry website:
>
> https://www.musictypefoundry.com/product/mtf-cadence
>
> Much rather this than a piece of music. Any sample of music will be
> irrelevant to some large subset of people. For example, my new 
> complexity
> stuff would just annoy people, and I don't want to see a sample of 
> Brahms
> (no disrespect to Brahms!!).
>
> Perhaps you could put music examples on a separate website, not in the
> program.
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 20:52, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a nice template document that can be used to 
> > demonstrate
> > a music font. It should not be too "heavy", and ideally it would show
> > off the font at a glance within the space seen in the attached 
> > screenshot.

Another idea: make it customizable.  I doubt there is ever going to be a 
one-size-fits-all preview template for fonts.  Of course, it's more work 
to support this, but providing you are shelling out to LilyPond behind 
the scenes to render the preview live, then allowing the end-user to 
provide a custom template would address concerns from folks who work in 
more esoteric branches of notation.


-- Aaron Hill