From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77897 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: john Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Figured bass symbols in a text. Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:58:49 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <20120813115849.1cb94033@sda3.wexfordpress.net> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344873354 25863 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2012 15:55:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:55:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 13 17:55:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T0wzg-00065J-LZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53278101F6; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id LZ0LuNKL6Qit; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B17101F0; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C541101F0 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id FDevEgc28blV for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (filter3-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98EF101EE for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.32]) by filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q7DFteU6029967 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:55:42 +0200 Original-Received: from omta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mCox1j00D0bG4ec53Fvj4o; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:55:43 +0000 Original-Received: from sda3.wexfordpress.net ([68.50.233.152]) by omta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mFvd1j0113HwwZ83PFvdgY; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:55:38 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs86 (GTK+ 2.24.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=76.96.62.32; country=US; latitude=38.0000; longitude=-97.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.0000,-97.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 08HKfTFkq - 99d9c3849c78 - 20120813 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77897 Archived-At: On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:00:31 +0200 Robert Blackstone wrote: > > > Hi Hans, > I just tested this for the figured bass symbols in my text. It is > perfect. > > And it has at least one important advantage over the plain-TeX > method, kindly offered by Michael Rogers, in that it uses the same > font as that for he main text, which, in my case, will be probably a > sans-serif font. The plain TeX solution, as far as I could see, uses > only the serif version of LM, so it would haven given me serif-like > figured bass symbols in an otherwise sans-serif document. > > Thank you very much. > > Kind regards, > Robert Consider also creating the figured bass (or any musical notation) in the shareware package Mup. The output is a ps file. Then the notation and any accompanying verse can be treated as a graphic import. There are horses for courses. 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