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by jan
24 Oct 2016, 13:05
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

>I get them when I use the Selection tool and click once on it.
Ah, yes, of course, looks a bit different on Windows, but I get a rectangle as well.
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 12:18
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

And did you set the Maestro "Space" font annotation boundaries manually or where they created automatically ? Because when I click on auto-annotate nothing visually appears. The "space" symbol has no glyph lines, so it doesn't know where to create reduced boundaries for the FAN. ...
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 12:12
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

BTW, how do you get the dashed boundaries shown with text expressions ? Is that MacOS only ?
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 12:07
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

Hm, weird. On Windows it's definitely the "f" height. Here is a screencam video where I create an "f" expression in Maestro from scratch and it immediately gets the big border from the font's height. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EVe3Jx84I Does the same happen on your system ...
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 11:23
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

Hi Octo, I was just testing the "space height opacity problem" that you mention. Could you tell me how you made it work with Maestro because I get the same opacity problem already in Maestro (which explains why it's partially the same in my fonts) ? Maybe it's a difference between MacOS an...
by jan
24 Oct 2016, 09:18
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

Thanks, Octo, for the clarifications. >I have some knowledge about OTF and TTF difference, however how it impacts just Finale is primary to me to know. The only impact I know is that my PDF printer (Foxit PDF) sometimes refuses to print document with OTF fonts in Finale. And OTF looks much (!) smoot...
by jan
23 Oct 2016, 18:02
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Free music fonts
Replies: 23
Views: 33208

Re: Free music fonts

Hi Octo, thanks for your hints. Here are my comments. >If I share my Finale documents on OS X with a user on Windows, shall we both use OTF? Good question! I should add it to the troubleshooting section. If you want to go cross-platform with the fonts, you should follow section 5) of the FAQ, i.e. &...
by jan
20 Aug 2016, 17:46
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Visual Music Font Comparison
Replies: 26
Views: 33152

Re: Visual Music Font Comparison

John, it took a few weeks, but meanwhile I was able to have a look at the original 1920 print of the Berg opus that is available at the Bavarian State Library Munich (Germany), https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/metaopac/search?oclcno=165560844&db=100&Language=en . The scans are now uploaded a...
by jan
21 Jul 2016, 07:50
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Visual Music Font Comparison
Replies: 26
Views: 33152

Re: Visual Music Font Comparison

If anyone is interested in more background info on the music font comparison, Robert Puff from the OF NOTE blog published an article I wrote on music font integration in Finale: http://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/behind-the-scenes-the-music-font-comparison-from-elbsound-studio/ Jan http://www.rpmseat...
by jan
23 Jun 2016, 13:49
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Visual Music Font Comparison
Replies: 26
Views: 33152

Re: Visual Music Font Comparison

Thanks a lot for all your comments - especially John's: every constructive feedback helps to improve a product. If you like to support the JW Lua project(s) for Finale, you can donate to Jari Williamson ( http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php/download/category/10-plug-ins-for-mac ). As MakeMusic doesn'...