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by David Ward
14 Jul 2023, 09:42
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Fonts for Lyrics
Replies: 39
Views: 83437

Re: Fonts for Lyrics

I'd try to show a little bit of an extension line in those tied notes: bb. 60, 63. I did a bit of work for a publisher recently; and while their output is not generally anything to shout about, they were insistent that there was always the slightest bit of an extension line, even if it meant moving...
by David Ward
11 Jul 2023, 10:33
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Fonts for Lyrics
Replies: 39
Views: 83437

Re: Fonts for Lyrics

MalteM wrote: 11 Jul 2023, 07:10
willy66 wrote: 11 Jul 2023, 01:41 […]
ChatGPT spam (with a fake benwiggy quote containing a link to a webshop (?)) detected.
Heavens! Yes, spam.

I somehow didn't notice the link… I hope I would not have been foolish enough to click on it, not that I have any wish to acquire a ‘durag’ (whatever that is).
by David Ward
11 Jul 2023, 10:17
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Fonts for Lyrics
Replies: 39
Views: 83437

Re: Fonts for Lyrics

It turns out I was responding to a spam e-mail added yesterday(?) to an old thread, but I'll leave my response here (unless people would rather I deleted it). * * * Recently I've found Adobe Garamond Pro seems to suit my needs as a composer. Here it is on a page from a modest piece for two voices an...
by David Ward
04 Jul 2023, 13:18
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Ossia: Finale versus Dorico
Replies: 10
Views: 10631

Re: Ossia: Finale versus Dorico

In Finale there seem to be two approaches that can work. 1) One can add an extra stave throughout a file for the ossia which one then hides everywhere except where needed. This can cause temporary confusion if the ossia is a late addition, as can often be the case, to a score with an otherwise fully...
by David Ward
03 Jul 2023, 13:17
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Ossia: Finale versus Dorico
Replies: 10
Views: 10631

Ossia: Finale versus Dorico

How fluently does Dorico do this sort of thing, done here in Finale 26.3 where although possible it is a bit of a fiddle? (FYI crotchet [quarter] = 54)
by David Ward
27 Jun 2023, 19:07
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: What does this symbol mean?
Replies: 15
Views: 10175

Re: What does this symbol mean?

Is this for electric or amplified guitar? If so, might it possibly relate to use of the amplifier?
by David Ward
23 Jun 2023, 10:10
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Behind Bars - "General Conventions"
Replies: 14
Views: 13097

Re: Behind Bars - "General Conventions"

One would hope that the greater connection (connexion?) that we all have with each other would bring more standardization -- in notation, too, as well as language. I'm a bit wary of standardization. When I was young (I'm now 82) one could identify the nationality of an orchestra on the instant by i...
by David Ward
22 Jun 2023, 14:57
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: Behind Bars - "General Conventions"
Replies: 14
Views: 13097

Re: Behind Bars - "General Conventions"

I know it's perfectly acceptable grammar but... it annoys me to read "one stave". I've grown up to know it as "one staff/ many staves."… … … In most parts of the UK a ‘staff’ is specific to a walking stick and at that perhaps a little old fashioned, eg the biblical ‘staff of Mos...
by David Ward
30 May 2023, 20:45
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: circa
Replies: 15
Views: 11860

Re: circa

… … … Isn't there any "one way" to write this circa abbreviation… … ? Probably not any one way, but I suggest Hector's D version as the one least likely to excite comment. As far as I can find, Gould has nothing to say on the subject. Another (perhaps whimsical) thought: the sign ≈ means ...
by David Ward
30 May 2023, 11:56
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: circa
Replies: 15
Views: 11860

Re: circa

D would be my preference. As for abbreviation full stops, these are now much less used in the UK than in the US (there are some other respects in which US English is now more old fashioned or traditional that ‘British English’ [whatever that tautology is supposed to mean - in Scotland it is not the ...