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- The Lassus font is a font modeled on the first music printing with moveable
- type, circa 1500 by Petrucci. Each character has a length of a five-line
- musical staff with a particular music symbol placed onto it. The font is not
- intended for serious musical notation, but is intended for quick-and-dirty,
- simple musical examples to be placed in a word-processed document so that
- going back and forth between a word processing program and a drawing or music
-
- notation program is unnecessary. N.B. the notation in the font is modern
- notation, not sixteenth-century notation. The details of the font are very
- fine, and are far too fine to show up completely on a computer monitor, even
- at sizes as great as 127 points. Typically on screen, not all five staff
- lines may show up -- in fact, NONE of them may show up. However, printing to
-
- a 300-dpi device will come out just fine, providing the point size you use is
-
- about 36 or greater. For general examples (I use this font for handouts for
- my counterpoint class), I like to use this font at 48 points. Since the
- bitmaps provided with the Mac PostScript version of this font are far from
- clean, it is suggested that you use the font ONLY with Adobe Type Manager, at
-
- sizes other than provided in the bitmap files; further, you should only
- install the 72-point bitmap. HINT: You may want to type your example at the
- largest point size your software allows, and when it looks fine, reduce it to
-
- the correct size for printing. N.B. the PostScript version is a Type 1 font,
- but is unhinted (Altsys charges extra for a hint editor for Fontographer, and
-
- the default hinting does not work for these characters)
-
- Every character in Lassus has a segment of five-line musical staff onto which
-
- a musical character has been "engraved." You may not see these lines on
- screen, but when you print they should be there. The following list of
- symbols will help you find these characters. When Macintosh option-key
- combinations are required, the requisite ASCII code for the character is
- included in parentheses so that IBM PC users can find it. Important note: All
-
- clefs, notes and rests are the same width, and are the same width as the
- segment of blank staff found at the 4 character. Dots, accidentals and the
- bar line characters are 1/4 the width of the notes, and are the same width as
-
- the blank segment of staff at the 6 character.
-
- CLEFS AND STAFF LINES
-
- ` (tilde) - treble clef
- 1 - Bass clef
- 2 - Alto clef
- 3 - Tenor clef
- 4 - 1000-em length of blank staff
- 5 - 500-em length of blank staff
- 6 - 250-em length of blank staff
- shift-option 9 - 125-em length of blank staff (ascii 225)
- option-p - two dots (for constructing repeat signs) (ascii 185)
-
- RESTS
-
- 7 - eighth rest
- 8 - quarter rest
- 9 - half rest
- 0 - whole rest
-
- MEASURE LINES
-
- dash - thin measure line
- = - thick measure line
-
- WHOLE NOTES
- N.B. A two and a half octave scale is available for whole, half, quarter and
- eighth notes. Lowest is two spaces below the staff, highest is two lines
- above the staff. Pitch names given here are relative to the treble staff.
-
- low G - q
- A - w
- B - e
- (middle) C - r
- D - t
- E - y
- F - u
- G - i
- A - o
- B - p
- C - [
- D - ]
- E - \
- F (top line) - a
- G - s
- A - d
- B - f
- C - g
-
- HALF NOTES
-
- low G - h
- A - j
- B - k
- (middle) C - l
- D - ;
- E - '
- F - z
- G - x
- A - c
- B - v
- C - b
- D - n
- E - m
- F (top line) - ,
- G - .
- A - /
- B - ~ (shift-tilde)
- C - 1
-
- QUARTER NOTES
- low G - 2
- A - 3
- B - 4
- (middle) C - 5
- D - 6
- E - 7
- F - 8
- G - 9
- A - 0
- B - shift-dash
- C - +
- D - Q
- E - W
- (top line) F - E
- G - R
- A - T
- B - Y
- C - U
-
- EIGHTH NOTES
-
- low g - I
- A - O
- B - P
- (middle) C - {
- D - }
- E - |
- F - A
- G - S
- A - D
- B - F
- C - G
- D - H
- E - J
- (top line) F - K
- G - L
- A - :
- B - "
- C - Z
-
- ACCIDENTALS
- N.B. Accidentals are designed to go in front of one of the typed notes and
- are drawn at the correct heights along the scale previously described.
-
- FLATS
- low G - X
- A - C
- B - V
- (middle) C - B
- D - N
- E - M
- F - <
- G - >
- A - ?
- B - shift-option tilde (217)
- C - shift-option 1 (218)
- D - shift-option 2 (219)
- E - shift-option 3 (220)
- (top line) F - shift-option 4 (221)
- G - shift-option 5 (222)
- A - shift-option 6 (223)
- B - shift-option 7 (224)
- C - shift-option 8 (161)
-
- SHARPS
- low G - shift-option zero (226)
- A - shift-option dash (209)
- B - shift-option = (177)
- C - shift-option Q (206)
- D - shift-option W (227)
- E - shift-option E (228)
- F - shift-option R (229)
- G - shift-option T (230)
- A - shift-option Y (231)
- B - shift-option U (232)
- C - shift-option I (233)
- D - shift-option O (175)
- E - shift-option P (184)
- (top line) F - shift-option [ (211)
- G - shift-option ] (213)
- A - shift-option \ (200)
- B - shift-option A (129)
- C - shift-option S (234)
-
- NATURALS
- low G - shift-option D (235)
- A - shift-option F (236)
- B - shift-option G (237)
- (middle) C - shift-option H (238)
- D - shift-option J (239)
- E - shift-option K (240)
- F - shift-option L (241)
- G - shift-option ; (242)
- A - shift-option ' (174)
- B - shift-option Z (243)
- C - shift-option X (244)
- D - shift-option C (130)
- E - shift-option V (215)
- (top line) F - shift-option B (245)
- G - shift-option N (246)
- A - shift-option M (247)
- B - shift-option , (248)
- C - shift-option period (249)
-
- DOTS (these are, of course, designed to follow notes)
- low G - option 1 (193)
- A - option 2 (170)
- B - option 3 (163)
- (middle) C - option 4 (162)
- D - option 5 (176)
- E - option 6 (164)
- F - option 7 (166)
- G - option 8 (165)
- A - option 9 (187)
- B - option 0 (188)
- C - option dash (208)
- D - option = (173)
- E - option q (207)
- (top line) F - option w (183)
- G - option r (168)
- A - option t (160)
- B - option y (180)
- C - option o (191)
-
-
- FONT AUTHOR INFORMATION
-
- The Lassus font was created by David Rakowski, who claims a copyright on it
- (All Rights Reserved). It is distributed free of charge, with the following
- stipulations: you may give copies to your friends without limit, providing
- all the files from this archive are included; you should not print the
- TrueType version to a PostScript printer, nor should you attempt to convert
- from TrueType to PostScript (it just won't work!); any publication which
- utilizes the font must contain the acknowledgement, "Lassus font for musical
- example(s) copyright 1991 by David Rakowski, used by permission". User groups
-
- and public domain/shareware software outlets may distribute the font with the
-
- aforementioned provisos, and in literature which illustrates the font, the
- example must be printed at 48 points or larger (at 300dpi), and should use
- the key sequence `8@-l4^-M'4- (that's a lower-case L in the sequence, not a
- 'one' and the sequence begins with a tilde).
-
- The Lassus font was created at Insect Bytes, a place that smells nice when it
-
- rains.
-
- Compuserve: 73240,3060
- GEnie: RAKMAN
- INTERNET: rak@woof.columbia.edu
-