14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Hi,

I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal  
text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century  
("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols support ...


Could someone show me a way?


Thanks,

Steffen


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Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Taco Hoekwater]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal  
> text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century  
> ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
> 
> I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols support ...
> 
> 
> Could someone show me a way?

Some fast googling found this:

http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/add-ons/readme-of.txt
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/add-ons/old-feta.tar.gz

For just a few symbols using these fonts directly should do, but if
you want to typeset music you probably should be using lilypond.

Best wishes,
Taco


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Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Jelle Huisman]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal  
> text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century  
> ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
>
> I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols support ...

Hi Steffen,

You might want to have a look at this font: 
http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191 (though I'm not sure 
this font covers all the symbols you need.)

A good resource for finding fonts is: 
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html

HTH,

Jelle


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Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Hi Jelle,


Am 23.10.2007 um 14:58 schrieb Jelle Huisman:
> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal
>> text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century
>> ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in
>>
>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
>>
>> I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols  
>> support ...
>
> Hi Steffen,
>
> You might want to have a look at this font:
> http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191 (though I'm not sure
> this font covers all the symbols you need.)
>
> A good resource for finding fonts is:
> http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html


Indeed: via this link (alanwood.net) I found http://users.teilar.gr/ 
~g1951d/ and there

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Musical.pdf
(plus the corresponding font)

Unbelievable stuff! Byzantine notation!! I never dared to hope that  
all this is available (and even non-commercial) with fonts ...


Thank you very much,

Steffen
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Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Hans Hagen]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi Jelle,
> 
> 
> Am 23.10.2007 um 14:58 schrieb Jelle Huisman:
>> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal
>>> text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century
>>> ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in
>>>
>>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
>>>
>>> I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols  
>>> support ...
>> Hi Steffen,
>>
>> You might want to have a look at this font:
>> http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/Eimai/191 (though I'm not sure
>> this font covers all the symbols you need.)
>>
>> A good resource for finding fonts is:
>> http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
> 
> 
> Indeed: via this link (alanwood.net) I found http://users.teilar.gr/ 
> ~g1951d/ and there
> 
> http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Musical.pdf
> (plus the corresponding font)
> 
> Unbelievable stuff! Byzantine notation!! I never dared to hope that  
> all this is available (and even non-commercial) with fonts ...

indeed

how about adding such top level links to the wiki (some font resource page)

Hans

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Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Unbelievable stuff! Byzantine notation!! I never dared to hope that  
> all this is available (and even non-commercial) with fonts ...

  It's part of Unicode, that's why.  If I remember correctly there was a
talk at TUG'04 (in Greece!) about that (but I doubt the devised macro
package was Unicode-compliant).

	Arthur
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Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")

[Jelle Huisman]

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Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Unbelievable stuff! Byzantine notation!! I never dared to hope that  
>> all this is available (and even non-commercial) with fonts ...
>>     
>
> indeed
>
> how about adding such top level links to the wiki (some font resource page)
I have added the link to the page "Fonts by Unicode character range" to 
the main Fonts page ( 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts#Available_Free_Fonts )

Jelle

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