How to add custom notehead
Greetings!
I want to add a custom notehead: for black notes, for half notes and for whole notes. What is the procedure to follow if i want to include it into the software?
Best regards,
-Alexandre Kharlamov
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Create a SMuFL compliant font, place it under a SIL Open Font license.
In reply to Create a SMuFL compliant… by Jojo-Schmitz
k, but which characters codes to use for the 3 noteheads that I want to be used together with regular noteheads? I understand that not many people add new noteheads, that's why I want to know how would a developer approach such a task. What I did on my local machine, I replaced the (seemingly) useless "diamond new" characters right in the font file, re-compiled Musescore and it's working fine. But, what would be a proper way of doing that so they all co-exist?
In reply to k, but which characters… by svyatozar
See above. That really is the way.
At http://www.smufl.org/version/1.2/range/noteheads/ you'd find the places in the fonts for noteheads
In reply to k, but which characters… by svyatozar
"... which characters codes to use for the 3 noteheads that I want to be used together with regular noteheads?"
See also this page about "Recommended characters and optional glyphs":
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/about/recommended-chars-optional-gl…
TL;DR
Codepoints are fixed. This means that you cannot arbitrarily assign a new glyph to an existing codepoint already designated in the SMuFL standard. Either request new SMuFL codepoints to cover the missing notation you need, or issue a complete new SMuFL-compliant font which implements your new alternative style.
In reply to "... which characters codes… by DanielR
I understand. I need to prepare a comprehensive document describing all the rationale and use cases. There are currently some issues with the current letter shape that need to be fixed first. As I understand, it cannot extend a certain box, otherwise it gets resized.