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I meant "of course" in the sense of "what else would I be using?".

Which font is it? Sebastian, of course! The :ped symbol is pretty standard, but the P from :ped on its own looks a little unbalanced -- or rather, too symmetrical, as both curls have a similar weight, rather than one being the main counter, and the other a swash serif. So I changed it to a more P t...

I emailed the chief engraver at Henle. Apparently they used both the 6 and 8 star in their hand engravings. Their digital pages produced by Amadeus software also produce a six-pointed star; but they now use an 8-pointed star and have no plans to change!

Does anyone have Amadeus? Does it use fonts?

You could use Note Spacing changes for the middle system.

Not sure I understand how you get from your second image onwards. Are you manually applying round corners to the whole thing? Can't believe that took just 2 minutes.

But, yes, there are probably lots of ways of doing it.

Is that in FontLab? I did mine in Affinity, and then pasted in.

The advantage of Dorico is that you can select the 'floating' accidental and set its column value directly, rather than just moving it graphically. If you set the column to 0, then the top accidental would move to column 1 to avoid collision. (I know that's not what you would want in this instance, ...

dircknagy wrote: ↑17 Jun 2024, 21:49 One would think they'd be posted somewhere

Some publishers are quite secretive about their exact style and usage specifications. After all, if anyone can knock out a score that looks as good...

Here's the Henle original taken from the plate. It's seen a bit of action...!

Some publishers make them available to the public, such as Schirmer; but others restrict them to staff/freelancers. I dare say that copies are floating around.

(Behind Bars is basically a Faber style manual that got out of hand....!)

Ha!. I've been using Affinity Designer to recreate geometric patterns used in Roman, Hellenistic, Christian and Islamic mosaics and architecture - and it's been really instructive in how to produce all kinds of shapes. Lots of logos and other designs use similar techniques -- the old Twitter logo, n...