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Yes, you could swap it in (though you might have to manually set the stem anchors). TBH, even if you swapped in a glyph of a different width, the differences are so small that there is usually sufficient 'play' in any given system to accommodate them. Even if you swapped in Engraver for Bravura, you...

It's in SMuFL, as an alternate, with the word "Pricope" beside it. I've no idea what that means. A composer/theorist?

I would certainly guess that it was a down/up symbol.

Yes. I'll try. It might depend on the optical size, e.g. large or small staff height.

That's what I've been playing from. There's also a free edition, which is a bit far apart, but quite clear; though there are some wrong notes and the inner voices have been swapped about a bit. The original print is written out on four staves, so there should be no doubt about the lines. I just thou...

Well, I've spent some time making a few adjustments: a slight increase in width, to 329 (thus the same width as Bravura); in contrast to 320 for the black notehead. Smoothing the outer curves, and making the cut-out shape straighter at the sides, with tighter curves at the end. Shallower angle, too....

Following on from recent discussions about the shape of the half-note's notehead, I thought I'd start a new thread specifically on that subject. I've compared some other fonts I have. Here is Partita , which I think was a direct scan of SCORE glyphs (hence the blocky edges); Wess's Vintage GHMA , wh...

I've been playing through Frescobaldi's Fiori musicali - keyboard music from 1635, mostly organ pieces for use in the mass.

Lovely stuff. Possibly ripe for an edition!

Scarlatti Sonata K. 1 My edition and the first edition appear after the commentary. Thank you for this, John. Your beams seem to be 'darker' than most (which works very well): are they different? I've recently bought a sample library of a 1738 Harpsichord, and I've just played it through on that; i...

I'd be happy to improve the half-note in Sebastian (hopefully without upsetting the spacing, now it's been used for a while). I'd be grateful, as ever, for your thoughts; and I'll do a bit of research and comparison.

I've just published a v1.003 release: this has added some Finale-specific glyphs to reduce the number of missing glyphs in Finale's Articulation Manager. Particularly: trills with accidentals. You may be interested to know that Dorico uses combined glyphs for these; the SMuFL standard also suggests ...