From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:10:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471E1CF9.1030202@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E97B2FD6-9039-4118-8818-FCA4DAB2E5F3@st.estfiles.de>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 10:35 Steffen Wolfrum
2007-10-23 11:02 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-10-23 12:58 ` Jelle Huisman
2007-10-23 15:57 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-10-23 16:10 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2007-10-24 14:01 ` Jelle Huisman
2007-10-23 16:14 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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