Police d'affichage de notes style Renaissance

J'ai créé une police pour partitions ancienne, à utiliser avec le logiciel Abc2Win . Je projette de l'adapter pour les utilitaires postscript comme abcm2ps ou Yaps. J'ai utilisé principalement PfaEdit pour adapter cette police

Fichier à télécharger contenant les différentes sources du projet (y compris une police True Type) : renaiss_music_font.zip (131 ko)

Exemple d'utilisation :

A partir du manuscrit trouvé à : http://memory.loc.gov/musdi/219/0154.gif

X:32
T:Air du branle couppé appellé Charlotte.
R:
C:Trad.
S:Thoinot Arbeau
N:0154.gif
B:Orchesographie (1589)
O:France
Z:http://anamnese.fr.st
M:8/2
L:1/2
Q:1/2=200
K:F
GGBB ccd2 | gz dz | cABc d2 G2 :: Gddd cdB2 | dz cz |
GABc AG   | dz cz | GABc AG | dz ez | dcBB AA G2 ||

Le manuscrit original :

Ma transcription abc donne grâce à abc2win et mes notes :

Ce qui est très proche de l'original, tout en l'ayant un peu nettoyé.

[traduction en cours]

My aim is to generate electronic documents (ps or pdf for example) which could look quite the same as the original but without the disavantage of only being an image [here is some samples of such document : tunes from Arbeau and tunes from Playford]. And I've also some personal compositions I'd like to print in the same way they could have been before ! :)

La police par défaut d'Abc2Win, pour le même air donne en transcription moderne :

Et avec abcm2ps :

Known problems :

At the moment :

Some symbols still miss : I've only made the most important ones [and some were not used in renaissance music, like trills, mordents,... , so we can forget them]
Some symbols I've made won't display in Abc2Win : bass key, ut key because only treble key is supported. ~~And the sharp notation refuses to be converted in ttf with PfaEdit. It's maybe the emplacement that causes problem (I can't get again the original flat either), or a bug in PfaEdit.~~ (corrected now)
Placement of some notes (8th notes), dot of dotted notes...
~~Extra lines are not displayed properly~~. (corrected now, but it's not in the true type, so I can't do better)
And so are eighth notes which are binded together (so write A/ A/ instead A/A/, and use L:1/2 instead of higher ratio)
There is no multivoice support with Abc2Win (but there was not either in the partitions of the Renaissance Era)

For the future :

The lines for the staves in renaissance music were printed behind each note : it's obvious on the original Arbeau's manusript. I was surprised to discover that it was quite the same with Abc2Win : even if it's not for each note, it's for a small range of the staff, unlike Abcm2ps which draw lines independently of the notes. So if it's still look a bit artificial on the ttf font I created, because there is not a small 5lines-staff behind each note but a staff for more or less 2 notes, there is no possibility to make it better with Abcm2ps because it doesn't draw lines that way. Maybe with Yaps...
Abcm2ps displays notes intelligently : there is more space for a half note than for a quarter for example and it wasn't like that on renaissance partitions. Abc2Win is more basic and it looks perfect for renaissance music !