NOTATIO

I've never used Lily Pond, therefore I don't know, but doesn't this font for finale work direct on this program? If, by "this program", you are referring to LilyPond, then the answer is no, it doesn't. It uses its own custom encoding that is completely different from Finale's, so there's ...

DatOrganistTho wrote:The font I'm using is Cadence. Our own @tisimst made that font.

Which is now called MTF-Cadence as I shift directions to a different online store. More details soon about that (in another thread of course).

OCTO wrote:@tisimst, how would you notate this with your preferences?

Just like you'd expect:

This is exactly right, DatOrganistTho. Thank you for clarifying.

So, @OCTO and @tisimst, it would be important to layout a philosophy of these notes. Clearly, Lilypond, unless it is a whole note, prefers to align slightly to the left of the note column, while in MuseScore it is clearly the center column. Could either of you give justification for your preference...

And here's how LilyPond does those same combinations (plus one more):

FYI, Lilypond has the double-stemmed variant as well, just as a separate style.


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Knut wrote:Tisimst, do you usually hint your music fonts (manually or otherwise)?

Yes, but they are almost always done automatically. I've done some manual hinting on text fonts, but that's usually only when I'm really not happy with the automated ones.

If possible, I would recommend thinning it down. It just seems unnecessarily too black, like if I had used a "caption" optical font in place of the "display" variant, if you get what I mean. ... here are two different versions of a song with translated text in PDF format; one wi...

+1 for the open ties!