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- 09 Jun 2022, 17:35
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Flat beam question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5445
Re: Flat beam question
Just a thought about the 8va thing. I'm not sure having seen the 8va symbol in older editions (because I'm not that familiar with them), but then it must surely have been an abbreviation of ottava , not of ottava alta as in modern notation programs? Abbreviations of this sort (usually in superscrip...
- 03 Jun 2022, 11:47
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31018
Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Just to update: v2.04 now has even better kerning(!), a few more characters (including the T caron for Kaťa Kabanová), some discretionary ligatures for fj and ij, and other improvements. https://github.com/benwiggy/nepomuk/releases I'm hoping that's probably reached a sufficient level of ... suffici...
- 02 Jun 2022, 15:17
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
- Replies: 4
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Re: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
The lopsided-ness comes from two things: firstly that the diamond is not as wide as the semibreve note; and also from the notional 'stem' to which the noteheads are attached.
Alternatively, you could create a playing technique with the diamond shape, which would always be centered on the notehead.
Alternatively, you could create a playing technique with the diamond shape, which would always be centered on the notehead.
- 01 Jun 2022, 17:53
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico 4.1 and iPad 'lifetime' purchase
- Replies: 0
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Dorico 4.1 and iPad 'lifetime' purchase
Dorico 4.1 is now out: with more MIDI editors, notably the dynamics lane. Lots of improvements to Lyrics: individual syllables (or characters) can be edited with different styles; ignore punctuation in alignment; elision slurs can be adjusted globally. It also warns you if your open project is modif...
- 01 Jun 2022, 17:47
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10241
Re: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
Ooh nice. One really great feature of Illustrator is/was that you could open a page from a PDF file, edit it, and 'put it back'. On a related, but disappointing note: FontExplorerX is being EOLed. They stop selling it at the end of June, and support only til July 2023. I guess everyone who needs it,...
- 01 Jun 2022, 06:47
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1834
Re: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
Dorico uses the "White Diamond" Notehead set for harmonics, and SMuFL provides different noteforms in diamond style to match each of the notehead types. I agree it's a curious decision; Daniel does know it's not ideal and needs revising. You can change this very easily in the Notehead set ...
- 23 May 2022, 10:46
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10241
Re: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
Just to update this list, 2 years on: The Affinity suite of apps has addressed many of the shortcomings, particular those with importing PDFs. Inkscape is now much more user-friendly on the Mac: it's available as an application bundle, without any additional installations. For web editing, Pinegrow ...
- 20 May 2022, 18:01
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31018
Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Actually, I've just done a 'hot-fix'. Small caps are a little thicker; a couple of rogue glyphs have been fixed, and the kerning may or may not be improved.
- 20 May 2022, 06:38
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31018
Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
I agree that the Bold, certainly, seems a little light compared to the caps. I used Fontlab's "automatic" kerning to standardize most of the letters. I can see your point on the I of incredible, perhaps, but the D of Dante looks almost too close by my reckoning. The rest look pretty good t...
- 19 May 2022, 17:35
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31018
Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
I've released a new version, 2.03, of Nepomuk. There are now Small Caps variants in both Regular and Bold, so you can use small caps in apps that don't support OpenType features.** (I've actually swapped the lowercase and small caps glyphs, so if you do use it in an app like InDesign, turning ON the...