http://simonwillison.net/2010-05-12T12:43:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-05-12T12:43:00+00:002010-05-12T12:43:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/12/simon/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://simont.livejournal.com/215976.html">Music: The Geeking</a></strong></p> More on Simon Tatham’s Gonville music font. He concluded that “Bézier curves are not a good tool for font design”, and instead switched to using curves based on involutes of circles with his own custom curve design tool. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lilypond">lilypond</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/music">music</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bezier">bezier</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/curves">curves</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gonville">gonville</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-tatham">simon-tatham</a></p>

2010-05-12T08:51:00+00:002010-05-12T08:51:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/12/gonville/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/gonville/">Gonville: a font of musical symbols, compatible with GNU Lilypond</a></strong></p> By Simon Tatham. I thoroughly recommend taking a look at the source code—it’s written in Python, contains detailed comments and defines every musical symbol using co-ordinates and trigonometry. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lilypond">lilypond</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/music">music</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gonville">gonville</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/simon-tatham">simon-tatham</a></p>

2007-03-30T15:04:54+00:002007-03-30T15:04:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/30/lilypond/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/big-page">&quot;Obsessed with putting ink on paper&quot;</a></strong></p> Fascinating essay from the authors of Lilypond describing the challenges involved in writing software to typeset music. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://infovore.org/">Tom Armitage</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lilypond">lilypond</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/music">music</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/typography">typography</a></p>