Simon Willison’s Weblog

Music: The Geeking. 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.

# 12th May 2010, 12:43 pm / bezier, curves, gonville, lilypond, music, simon-tatham, recovered

Gonville: a font of musical symbols, compatible with GNU Lilypond. 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.

# 12th May 2010, 8:51 am / gonville, lilypond, music, simon-tatham, recovered

“Obsessed with putting ink on paper” (via) Fascinating essay from the authors of Lilypond describing the challenges involved in writing software to typeset music.

# 30th March 2007, 3:04 pm / typography, music, lilypond