Re: Lilypond font design

[Till Rettig]

Karl Hammar wrote:
>  Great!
> Is your goal, like Guthenburg, to make a few e's etc, to simulate the
> variability of handwriting also?
> Would that be possible within lilypond?
>   
Well, I don't know yet -- it would definitely be userfull for the 
samples taken from handwritten fonts. But what rules apply for the 
substitution? And should the font handle it itself (otf-features, 
maybe), or should it be built into lily?
> ==========
>
> Btw, I have found an antiqua font:
>
>  http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lab/lab_dayroman.htm
>
> which could be useful. The copyright seems to be
>
>   Hope the ghost of Guyot looks good enough for your designs. Have a
>   blast with it. If you use it commercially, give something to your
>   favourite charity, will ya?
>
> I will try to make it usable within lilypond, though I don't know how to
> handle the diftongs or the cases where there is two variant of the same
> letter.
>
>   
So far I thought only about the notation fonts, but you are right, there 
should be also a nice looking roman font. DayRoman would be nearly 
perfect for imitation of printed editions from the 16 century. About the 
copyright I am not so sure -- lily should per default only inlcude parts 
that can also freely be used for buisness stuff. On the other hand the 
sentence doesn't oblige anybody but is a mere whish.
> Is any who knows how to include tex's yfrak frakture fonts?
>   
Couldn't they be converted to otf and then used easyly via the system 
installation for fonts or then included into lily as a choice. Actually 
how did Laura Conrad use her "Fraktur" fonts in LilyPond?


Greetings
Till