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Very strange. The previous test post went through on this thread, but when I tried pasting a longer post here it didn't go through again, and I get the error message: No route found for "GET /posting.php" (from "http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=432&p=6149") Maybe its ...

For two days I have been trying to post, so far without success. After writing a post in the full editor, I can't even get to the preview stage.

OCTO, the same thought keeps occurring to me for a quite a while now and has been one of my concerns about Dorico. If every decision is made by machine intelligence, the result will look machine-like and unappealing. We see something analogous in architecture. The machine-like plainness of the inter...

Gould places the dots directly over the stems (page 404). This does seem better to me for the reason you gave: the stem is the only available "position factor". For the same sort of reason, the octave sign would be placed over the last G only (see page 326 in Gould) since it is the only de...

I'm curious: at what size did you test the font? It's developed for use at 9/10 pt which is quite small and I found that the figures are easier to read when there's a bit of space between the components. I can only insert individual glyphs in Finale because your combinations don't come up in Text>S...

Florian, Figurato is an excellent and attractive font for figured bass, and I downloaded it for possible future use in Finale. Your implementation of it in Dorico is superb. If only Dorico met my other needs... Just one quibble. I would prefer that accidentals be closer to the numbers, as in the BGA...

1. A little online "research" yields the fact that adjective-noun order in Italian does sometimes change the meaning; in other cases, it just sounds better one way or the other. I would assume that adverb-adjective order would be similar. One is accustomed to seeing "Allegro assai&quo...

The classic, encyclopedic work in Engish is by your compatriot F. T. Arnold: The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass (Oxford, reprinted by Dover). The conventions varied a lot from era to era and composer to composer. One could also read the section on figured bass from C. P. E. Bach's Essay o...

Here are samples of Maestro and Fravura to illustrate some of OCTO's points, with which I am mostly in agreement. I prefer the Maestro font noteheads, accidentals, rests, dynamics, most articulations and time signatures. This is the reason that I would need the Maestro font or something very like it...

Thanks very much for inquiring, tisimst. That is very good of you. I have noticed a few resemblances between the two fonts: the black note heads appeared almost identical when I compared them a while ago, but Maestro seems more elegant to me. I like the dynamic symbols in particular. Bravura looks w...