Re: Accidentals' font

[Urs Liska]

Am Samstag, den 04.07.2020, 10:06 -0500 schrieb Karlin High:
> On 7/4/2020 5:55 AM, Paolo Prete wrote:
> > Just leave Feta as a native font and insert a dummy
> > wrapper for Gonville in the ./configure. This does not require any
> > development, nor uniformity in the coding standard and can be
> > easily added
> > to the source tree.
> 
> This discussion is reminding me of the Google Summer of Code project 
> proposal, "Support for Style Sheets."
> 
> "
> LilyPond’s engraving output can be tweaked to the least detail, and
> one 
> important addition in recent years was the ability to use
> alternative 
> notation fonts. It is possible to create reusable modules for “house 
> styles”, but this project aims at bringing this to a new level by 
> creating a convenient extension package with support for creating, 
> applying, and sharing modular style sheets.
> "
> <http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html>
> 
> That looks to me like there IS community support for having ways to 
> change the look-and-feel of LilyPond's output, depending how the 
> development goals are defined and presented.

I just want to point out that there's an openLilyLib package 
https://github.com/openlilylib/notation-fonts which allows you to use
any installed (i.e. compatible) notation font as easily as

\include "oll-core/package.ily"
\loadPackage notation-fonts
\useNotationFont lilyjazz

This loads a default stylesheet provided for lilyjazz, but you can also
specify custom styles with

\useNotationFont \with {
  stylesheet = #'my-custom-style.ily
} haydn

The repository with the old OFL versions of Abraham Lee's work (which
includes Gonville BTW) has been mentioned, and Frescobaldi provides a
easy-to-use dialog to install and choose notation fonts with built-in
preview function.

Urs