Saxy is a font for music notation of Saxophone fingerings (tablatures).
You can download Saxy from the redist folder and follow the standard procedures for installing and selecting fonts on your system.
This font should work in any program that handles fonts reasonably. However, some programs, like Microsoft Word, seem not to like it. It works fine in LibreOffice Writer, on the web, and in MuseScore.
The tablature system used in this font has been based upon that outlined by Jean-Marie Londeix in his book, "HELLO! Mr. SAX".
Each character maps to a specific key:
- s (stands for sax) : The full empty graph
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 : The center keys, 7 being the low C
- 8, 9, 0 : 8va, low A, thumb catch
- x, p, d : X, P, Eb/D#
- f, c, a : Tf, Tc, Ta
- q, w, e, r, t : C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
- g, b, v, h : G#, low B, C#, low Bb
- "-" (hyphen) : The middle line
The Musescore Plugin saxophone-fingerings uses this font.
Contributions are welcome.
The fonts are built using FontForge's python scripting interface. To build the font, first install FontForge, then run ffpython located in your FontForge installation directory, and run:
cd src
ffpython build.pyThis font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.