Esmuflily is an extension for LilyPond that supports SMuFL
compliant fonts, in particular, to facilitate the use of glyphs from
Ekmelos: clefs, time signatures, noteheads, articulations, etc.
Esmuflily provides switches to turn the SMuFL support on or off for
individual types of graphical objects (clefs, noteheads, etc.) and
it defines additional commands and styles for SMuFL glyphs which are
not available in LilyPond (notehead styles, function theory symbols, etc.)
So scores can benefit from both SMuFL's comprehensive character set
and LilyPond's awesome Emmentaler font.
Copy the file esmufl.ily into an appropriate folder,
e.g. "LILYPOND/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly"
with LILYPOND meaning the installation folder of LilyPond.
Optionally install a SMuFL compliant font, e.g. Ekmelos.
Usage
Add the following lines near the top of your LilyPond input file.
The first line can be omitted when using Ekmelos.
ekmFont = FONTNAME
\include "esmufl.ily"
Esmuflily + Ekmelily
To combine Esmuflily with Ekmelily,
add e.g. the following lines near the top of your LilyPond input file.
This achieves LilyPond's standard behaviour,
i.e. Dutch note names (default) and Stein / Couper accidentals (stc)
for quarter-tones (24-EDO).
The first line can be omitted when using Ekmelos.
2024-04-06:
Support to draw paths instead of font glyphs is added.
A font can be selected with the variable ekmFont
or the option ekmfont.
2023-11-11:
The commands \ekm-metronome
and \ekmMetronome are added to draw metronome strokes.
2023-10-31:
SMuFL repeat bar colons are supported with the symbol colon.
2023-10-25:
SMuFL string numbers are supported with the symbol stringnumber
and the command \ekm-string-number.
Fingering now supports also right-hand fingering.
2023-09-08:
The command \ekm-theory is renamed to
\ekm-func, its properties have changed,
and the definition string has an extended syntax.
The commands \ekmFunc and \ekmFuncList
are added for use in lyrics context.
The octave glyphs for "8^vb", "15^mb", "22^mb", "29^mb" are supported.
2023-08-31:
\ekm-brace supports also the size variants 140, 160, 180.
The function theory symbol for /D is now a single glyph.
\ekm-fret-diagram-terse draws centered fretboards.
2023-08-24:
The command \ekm-theory is added to draw
function theory symbols.
\ekmStartTrillSpan now takes an integer argument
instead of a symbol.
\ekm-finger now uses * instead of
\ to draw italic glyphs.
2023-08-10:
New styles for geometric shapes are available with
\ekm-arrow.
25 July 2023:
Esmuflily now requires LilyPond version 2.24.0 or higher.
New styles are available with \ekm-arrow.
\ekmScript and \ekmScriptSmall
now take a symbol instead of a string as the first argument.
29 June 2023:
The commands \ekmLaissezVibrer
and \ekm-brace are added.