Re: [DejaVu-fonts] U+266A (musicalnote) and U+266B (musicalnotedbl)

[Stepan R. <st...@sr...>]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, David Jez wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
>>> Two glyphs that might be useful to add to all the DejaVu fonts, at least
>>> in my opinion, would be musicalnote (U+266A) and musicalnotedbl (U+266B).
>>> I've seen these glyphs used in some DVD subtitles to distinguish song
>>> lyrics from spoken dialogue, an idea which was in turn borrowed from
>>> closed captioning for the hard-of-hearing on US/Canadian television.
>>
>> Interesting. I'll add it to Plans.
>  Ofcourse, sounds good. Look & check my quick first try. Attached .pdf
> sample and Dejavu-Sans.ttf. This can be easy copy into Mono and Oblique
> face is easy too. But i don't try how it appears in Condensed variant
> and i must create Bold variants (and do it wider than 1024) too...

Nice, however I have some suggestions: vertical line should be very thin, 
U+266B should have vertical line be of the same length as that of U+2669, 
the first note in U+266B should be higher than the second one (that's how 
they have it in Unicode Charts), the bar connecting notes in U+266B should 
be thicker than vertical lines (= should stay the same and lines should be 
thinner). I also think that head of the note (the oval) should have 
horizontal axis truly horizontal not inclined(?) - I mean it looks like 
this:

      |
   ___|
  _   _
_   _
  ___

but I would prefer this:

       |
   ___ |
  _   _|
_     _
  _   _
   ___

And last, but not least, I would like more conservative "flag" or "tail" 
in U+266A (like the one in Unicode Charts).

But these are only suggestions, take what you want.

I assigned these two musical notes (and Braille) to you in Plans. You 
asked for it :-)

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh