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by benwiggy
11 Mar 2024, 09:26
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Accent shape
Replies: 9
Views: 293

Re: Accent shape

Here's my prototype for a revised accent for Sebastian:
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It has a very slightly thicker note-side edge, and a narrow angle.
by benwiggy
10 Mar 2024, 19:12
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Accent shape
Replies: 9
Views: 293

Re: Accent shape

1. is Wess's Vintage GHMA font.
2. MuseGraph Vienna
3. Maestro
4. Engraver
5. Bravura
6. Sebastian
7. MTF Cadence

I also have November2, which is even narrower.
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by benwiggy
10 Mar 2024, 15:51
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Accent shape
Replies: 9
Views: 293

Re: Accent shape

Yes, I knocked these up in a drawing app, so it might not be aligned properly.
by benwiggy
10 Mar 2024, 14:56
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Accent shape
Replies: 9
Views: 293

Accent shape

How do people feel about the shape of accents? Should the angle be wide, or narrow? Should they be wider than the notehead? Here are an assortment of different accents from various fonts. Any favourites? Any least favourites? Screenshot 15.png I know that they ultimately derived from a "tiny ha...
by benwiggy
03 Mar 2024, 15:50
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Alignment of lyric hyphens
Replies: 4
Views: 166

Re: Alignment of lyric hyphens

Similar little mis-alignments bother me, and one of the small improvements to Dorico recently was the ability to set the hyphen distances for a selected run of hyphens, and I've made much use of it. Screenshot.png However, I'd quite understand if you left it, for the reasons you suggest. That having...
by benwiggy
22 Feb 2024, 15:44
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 5.1.20 released
Replies: 2
Views: 608

Re: Dorico 5.1.20 released

There is a 5.1.21 "hotfix" released today, which fixes one crash and a couple of minor UI glitches that crept into the .20 release.
by benwiggy
21 Feb 2024, 09:59
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 5.1.20 released
Replies: 2
Views: 608

Dorico 5.1.20 released

Another minor update, fixing "more than 30 bugs", and introducing a few new small capabilities, including better hairpin positioning; and spacing.


https://blog.dorico.com/2024/02/dorico-5-1-20-released/
by benwiggy
18 Feb 2024, 11:47
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: SCORE Music Publishing System VS. Graphire Music Press
Replies: 22
Views: 36270

Re: SCORE Music Publishing System VS. Graphire Music Press

I am not a layer either, but I believe that copyright means "not to copy by any mean", and to copy its actual design. For instance, reading and recording a copyrighted book and putting it publicly without permission is a straight "copyright infringement". What I believe is that ...
by benwiggy
15 Feb 2024, 11:13
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Fermata question
Replies: 6
Views: 682

Re: Fermata question

Though, for a moment, I thought the articulations over the quaver might also be a type of fermata...!
by benwiggy
20 Jan 2024, 18:31
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Enharmonic symbol
Replies: 27
Views: 440271

Re: Enharmonic symbol

I've decided to add a cautionary accidental to the first note, which should be sufficient help, without muddying the waters too much.
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