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by dspreadbury
08 Jan 2016, 09:42
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: My Clef
Replies: 23
Views: 24796

Re: My Clef

John, you chose one of the most challenging forms as your first effort! I can't count the number of revisions of the G clef I have produced to date for Bravura (though I don't plan to revise it any further at this stage). Another deceptively difficult form is the regular black notehead. It's just an...
by dspreadbury
08 Jan 2016, 09:38
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: [BRAVURA] Organizing the font?
Replies: 14
Views: 17116

Re: [BRAVURA] Organizing the font?

The latest version of the SMuFL documentation is now found at GitHub, here: https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/ This web-based version of the documentation is easy to share (just share the URL to the specific page on which the glyph(s) you're concerned with appear), and also contains a search featu...
by dspreadbury
08 Jan 2016, 09:36
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: [BRAVURA] What does this represent?
Replies: 28
Views: 26973

Re: [BRAVURA] What does this represent?

Those clefs were requested by Emil Wojtacki, an engraver who works primarily on Polish and other eastern European music, and has done with work with major publishers of this repertoire, such as PWM. These clefs apparently came into use in the middle of the 20th century to more clearly indicate the t...
by dspreadbury
10 Dec 2015, 09:40
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: E. Gould and Piano Pedaling
Replies: 22
Views: 22023

Re: E. Gould and Piano Pedaling

Faber, who publish Behind Bars and for whom Elaine is their chief editor, produce all of their publications in Sibelius, so it's not much of a surprise to see Sibelius being used to produce the music examples in the book. The book was in development for so many years that some of the examples are fr...
by dspreadbury
02 Dec 2015, 09:22
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: Inkscape crashing
Replies: 16
Views: 19805

Re: Inkscape crashing

It's not free or open source, but if you're using a Mac, an excellent and inexpensive alternative to Adobe Illustrator is Affinity Designer (Serif, the manufacturer, also has a similarly excellent Photoshop alternative called Affinity Photo). Both are available from the Mac App Store, and I would re...
by dspreadbury
16 Nov 2015, 09:57
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: [Lilypond] Font sizes
Replies: 17
Views: 20036

Re: [Lilypond] Font sizes

It is, however, an extremely laborious solution for designers of large scale music fonts like Bravura, considering you would effectively have to design 8 different versions of the same font before you would be able to support this feature entirely. In a font with thousands of glyphs, this would be ...
by dspreadbury
22 Oct 2015, 14:15
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Algorithms of accidental spacings
Replies: 37
Views: 38986

Re: Algorithms of accidental spacings

You're right, Knut, that SMuFL makes this kind of thing easier to achieve, but scoring applications still have to make use of this kind of metadata to improve things. I suspect that it would be very difficult for either Finale or Sibelius to produce this kind of kerning by default, because both appl...
by dspreadbury
22 Oct 2015, 08:12
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Algorithms of accidental spacings
Replies: 37
Views: 38986

Re: Algorithms of accidental spacings

As erelievonen pointed out earlier in the thread, it's no surprise that in manually engraved scores (whether via plate or stencil or hand) there is less consistency about the distance of accidentals from notes, given that the engraver would have positioned the punch (or stencil or pen) by hand for e...
by dspreadbury
21 Oct 2015, 22:00
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Algorithms of accidental spacings
Replies: 37
Views: 38986

Re: Algorithms of accidental spacings

All of the naturals have the same spacing: they are 1/4 space away from the left-hand side of the notehead. Perhaps there are some rounding errors in the PNG file. I've attached both a graphic with our diagnostic drawing of spacing columns switched on, which you might find helpful (I think perhaps t...
by dspreadbury
21 Oct 2015, 13:43
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Algorithms of accidental spacings
Replies: 37
Views: 38986

Re: Algorithms of accidental spacings

This is an interesting topic, and something that we have been spending a lot of time on in our application: not only accidental stacking rules (which I have discussed at length on my blog at http://blog.steinberg.net/2014/03/development-diary-part-six/ ), but also kerning of accidental stacks, and t...