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by benwiggy
20 Jul 2022, 08:38
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Encore back from the dead
Replies: 9
Views: 14139

Re: Encore back from the dead

Overture uses a SMuFL-ised Sonata, called AloisenU. I'd expect a new version of Encore to use a SMuFL font; though transitioning legacy documents would require significant work.
by benwiggy
20 Jul 2022, 07:08
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Encore back from the dead
Replies: 9
Views: 14139

Re: Encore back from the dead

It seems like many people are aware that the available notation software isn't meeting everyone's needs. Many people? What do you base that on? I doubt that any software (of any kind) meets everyone's needs. There's a balance between the needs it fulfils, and the needs it doesn't. I may be willing ...
by benwiggy
19 Jul 2022, 10:09
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Encore back from the dead
Replies: 9
Views: 14139

Encore back from the dead

Don Williams seems to have bought back the rights to Encore, and will be releasing a new version in the Autumn. https://passportmusic.com I'm not sure what that means for Overture, his other notation app. We've discussed previously how the number of notation apps currently in development is surprisi...
by benwiggy
19 Jul 2022, 09:45
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Finale 27.3: plug-ins
Replies: 4
Views: 2451

Re: Finale 27.3: plug-ins

Honestly, as many of us have used (and relied upon) these plugins for some time, it would seem to make sense to keep them as they currently are: Long-standing users have nothing to fear. MM has, ironically, always been reluctant to implement change. :lol: The question is whether Finale's UI is an o...
by benwiggy
14 Jul 2022, 07:14
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: instrument names in score
Replies: 2
Views: 1060

Re: instrument names in score

I suspect it's just down to house style. The early 18th-century Italian sources I deal with tend to use plurals or singulars accurately, e.g. Violini, Bassi, Oboi; but Violino solo, Flauto, Tromba, etc. Interestingly, voices are always singular -- Canto, Alto, etc, though that doesn't necessarily me...
by benwiggy
13 Jul 2022, 13:25
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 4.2 released
Replies: 3
Views: 1354

Re: Dorico 4.2 released

Indeed, I'm very grateful for many of them (not least of all the independent scaling of accidentals). I wasn't suggesting that engraving has been overlooked; I was, in a clumsy way, trying to anticipate the area in which other features might be forthcoming...!
by benwiggy
13 Jul 2022, 11:50
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 4.2 released
Replies: 3
Views: 1354

Dorico 4.2 released

Dorico 4.2 has just been released: the main features are the addition of the percussion editor as part of the new Key editor toolkit, and the ability to copy MIDI edits when copying notes. There are the usual plethora of minor tweaks and fixes. (More punctuation, including elipses, are now ignored w...
by benwiggy
09 Jul 2022, 09:12
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Finale 27.3: plug-ins
Replies: 4
Views: 2451

Finale 27.3: plug-ins

MM have issued a blog about the 'forthcoming' Finale 27.3, which they say will include a number of Jari Williamsson's plug-ins, by default. These will be ARM-native for Apple Silicon Macs. https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/sneak-preview-plug-in-with-finale-v27-3/ While this is good news, it doesn't r...
by benwiggy
01 Jul 2022, 13:42
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: All seven of Lotti's operas!
Replies: 3
Views: 4903

All seven of Lotti's operas!

I have finally finished my editions of all seven of Lotti's surviving complete operas. In 2009, as part of my PhD research, I began typing in the arias and recits from Teofane into individual Finale files, leaving me with the problem of how to assemble them into a complete score. "Some time pas...
by benwiggy
27 Jun 2022, 10:51
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Finale 27.2 with Sebastian and Golden Age SMuFL
Replies: 0
Views: 62205

Finale 27.2 with Sebastian and Golden Age SMuFL

I've been testing and refining my* SMuFL fonts, Sebastian and Golden Age, on Finale 27.2, and fixed a variety of local issues. Most of these were to do with 'baseline' positioning, e.g. where the glyph sits in relation to other objects, to make everything sit correctly with the defaults. So they sho...