NOTATIO

To my knowledge there hasn't been any changes in this regard in the recent updates. Even though you and I feel that the shapes of Finale's slurs are far superior, I suspect that the majority of the Dorico community does not feel the same. As Schonbergian points out, the shapes of Dorico's slurs are...

Good job, Schonbergian! Unfortunately, when you deal a lot with choral music you can't help coming across the very worst of 'contemporary engraving' every day, even in professional publications. This is a very pleasing counterexample! Because you asked: I've got a few thoughts. 1. Vertical spacing: ...

The S-shaped slur immediately reminded me of the minuscule wrist swing a pianist might do in order to slur the two notes, and I very much like it in the manuscript. For an engraved version, however, I agree with Octo and Knut. I tried it myself with a few bars of the Etude and I found that the S-slu...

I'm trying to convert my own music fonts to SMuFL using fontforge. There's a python script by Robert Piéchaud that should automatically generate the required font metadata (https://github.com/w3c/smufl/tree/gh-pages/scripts/fontforge). I have never used any sripts in fontforge before and so far I ha...

I just uploaded the revised version to the Github page. (https://github.com/fkretlow/sebastian) Thank you! I created a whole set of numerals in different sizes while working on the fonts. They were all derived from the symbols for time signatures. As for the ligatures, I just knew you could combine ...

I just came across this forum, following some link posted on the Dorico support forum – and was surprised finding some threads concerning the music fonts I created a couple of years ago. Well, I've created a "clean" version of the font, fixing all the errors that Fontforge flagged. I didn'...