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New lyricfont: does regular, italics, diacriticals

Yesterday, our choir sang at a bilingual English/Spanish ceremony. Suddenly, I realized that in its current version, the NWC lyrics editor only allows one font per composition. So it is not possible to have some lyrics regular, some italicized (as is often used with multi-lingual lyrics). Of course, the text insertion editor is more flexible.

Problem solved! I created a free font that can be used in the NWC lyrics editor (or in Notepad) for either regular or italics characters, also allowing diacriticals. Mix or match, it doesn't matter. This does not require any special software and no hacking of the program. here is the font:

http://www.icogitate.com/~ergosum/misc/generiwest.htm

Enjoy!

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Reply #1 –
I wouldn't quite say 'problem solved', although it is a reasonable workaround, because very few people will have the font, so the italics will be gibberish to them.

Your first paragraph is the nub of the matter. I have already submitted a wish to the list that the lyric font can be selected independently for each stave, and then by layering you can have any combination you want.

Peter

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Reply #2 –
I just added my vote in the wishlist for Peter's proposal.

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Reply #3 –
Oh, I agree. I wished for that myself. But it didn't take long to cut-and-paste two generic fonts together. Besides, my font allows mix-and match on the same lyric line, if you wish.

Since the font is embeddable in PDF, you can use it for that purpose. But as you noted, it wouldn't work with something such as the NWC browser plug-in.

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Reply #4 –
Thank you for all the fonts you have created. I know this one will come in handy.

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Reply #5 –
The "Generiwest font is now obsolete. I just posted a much-improved version called "Romital" (Roman and Italic) to the Scriptorium. This font should be adequate for most bilingual situations, where the Roman (non-italic) lyrics are in English, and the Italic lyrics are in other common Western European languages. That is, all of the characters with diacritical marks are in the italic set. Caution: Romital does not use the same character map as Generiwest.

Admittedly this is not the same as having line-by-line choice of lyric fonts. But it does the job for now. If you want to send your composition to someone else, you can freely re-distribute the font, or embed it in a compatible document format.

As long as I'm here... Was there a server problem with the NWC forum during the weekend of January 12-13?

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Reply #6 –
Server problem: I have been using the server extensively during this period, with no problems. Why do you think there was a problem?

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Reply #7 –
[I suppose Robert supposes this because usually there are many new posts during the week-end.]

Robert, I cannot download your romital.zip file from the NWC Scriptorium!?

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Reply #8 –
NWC: The only reason I thought there might be a problem, was that the weekend was quiet, as you noted. It's not that I actually had any problem with the web site.

Marsu: The Scriptorium link didn't work, as you noted. Probably a typo when their page was updated. I'll let them know. But I don't have the font uploaded to my own web site, either. It's not as if the font is a profound contribution to Civilization As We Know It.

I'm still working on that new font mentioned in another thread.

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Reply #9 –
One other thing: Currently, I am away from home, using someone else's computer. They have an AOL account. I notice that here, re-loading the pages after posting to the forum does NOT give an update with the new post appearing immediately (as it does from my non-AOL home account). It appears that AOL has some sort of internal page buffer.

I also wonder if automatic installation of NWC plug-ins may go to an original non-AOL browser, lurking unused, rather than to the actually-used AOL browser copy. I can't determine this myself, as I don't want to fool around with the computer settings here.

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Reply #10 –
about caching: you may try to ask refresh twice.

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Reply #11 –
Last chance to suggest symbols for the new font, as I will start work on it tomorrow.

Marsu: Double-refresh did work. Thanks.

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Reply #12 –
The force was not with me! I placed the above message into the wrong message thread. Ignore it. The font of THIS message thread is already on the Scriptorium (and the link to it now works). Now for the correct thread...