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by bicinium
23 Jul 2019, 16:13
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Flat - "The most advanced music writing software"
Replies: 4
Views: 6361

Re: Flat - "The most advanced music writing software"

I haven't written music in it but I've worked with some of its scores by exporting to PDF and XML. Full measure rests aren't supported - for example, a piece in 3/4 will have three quarter rests in every empty measure. PDF files are generated without margins and there is no page layout mode in the e...
by bicinium
07 Jun 2019, 13:47
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: MuseScore 3.0 released
Replies: 14
Views: 15153

Re: MuseScore 3.0 released

I've only tried a couple of things, and the results are 'in line with most other OMR software I've tried'. Hopefully, it will improve. That's actually just a frontend for Audiveris, a third party (open source) OMR library. I don't hold on to any such hope myself, and one of the main MuseScore devel...
by bicinium
05 Jun 2019, 08:31
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: MuseScore 3.0 released
Replies: 14
Views: 15153

Re: MuseScore 3.0 released

And MuseScore 3.1 was officially released last week: https://musescore.org/en/3.1 It has the vaunted single note (de)crescendo which I'm really happy about, and more of Tantacrul's remarks were addressed in the meantime. You can now adjust spacing by dragging notes left and right, but it's a bit fin...
by bicinium
20 May 2019, 07:25
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: 17th Century moveably type font
Replies: 4
Views: 7882

Re: 17th Century moveably type font

I would not be impressed if you gave me a newly engraved partbook with this font to read. Well technically it's newly typeset, not newly engraved ;) OK, point taken regarding unneeded skeuomorphism and the superiority of scores. Scores are possible but very impractical due to the need for blank pie...
by bicinium
19 May 2019, 20:15
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: 17th Century moveably type font
Replies: 4
Views: 7882

Re: 17th Century moveably type font

Ah, sorry, I didn't notice this thread and made one elsewhere, with an example: http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=6395 Apart from me geeking out, it would be very useful in case you composed something that you wanted to have performed in a Renaissance HIP style; it puts singers in the right mo...
by bicinium
19 May 2019, 07:47
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Renaissance-style moveable type setting with the new Serenissima font
Replies: 0
Views: 8017

Renaissance-style moveable type setting with the new Serenissima font

I figured you people would be interested in this. The extremely awesome Early Music Sources project has released a font that mimics the look and workflow of late Renaissance typesetting, "for better or for worse" (mostly for worse, I think). It's fairly easy to use thanks to the use of lig...
by bicinium
13 Apr 2019, 08:08
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: MuseScore 3.0 released
Replies: 14
Views: 15153

Re: MuseScore 3.0 released

Interesting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A (ps. warning: to much intensive, but some of the points well done). I love that video. Aside from the extremely long section on iconography, it's a great video to show someone what MuseScore is about. And as someone who did classical stu...
by bicinium
13 Apr 2019, 06:56
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Differentiation of text sizes in score and parts
Replies: 3
Views: 4070

Re: Differentiation of text sizes in score and parts

MuseScore can do this too in the sense that style settings are not synchronized between score and parts after you've added the parts. The style menu has an "apply to all parts" button when inside a part, but not when changing things on the score. Something like the Lilypond mechanism would...
by bicinium
14 Mar 2019, 08:27
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: MuseScore 3.0 released
Replies: 14
Views: 15153

Re: MuseScore 3.0 released

Here's a recent, original composition (not by me) with what I thought was a very appealing engraving: https://musescore.com/r_d/scores/5482385?from=notification#comment-5180196 By the way, they're on version 3.0.5 now. A lot of the fixes are on the level of "how was this program functioning bef...
by bicinium
03 Mar 2019, 07:57
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: When to respell enharmonically?
Replies: 1
Views: 3126

When to respell enharmonically?

Dear Notatio, I am arranging Robert Fuchs' double bass sonata whereby the piano becomes a woodwind quintet. It likes to modulate a lot and the piano already has double sharps, and this is exacerbated in the transposing parts. There are also instances where the piano transitions from sharps to flats ...