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- 03 Sep 2025, 14:01
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Finest modern engraving examples
- Replies: 3
- Views: 78
Re: Finest modern engraving examples
Beautiful engraving for classical guitar by Tuscany Publications of Tampa FL, a company of music professor Richard Long, distributed by Theodore Presser. [I'm not affiliated, but know Prof. Long slightly]. Example is Schumann's Kinderszenen arr. Stephen Aron. Engraving style slightly quirky, with le...
- 25 Aug 2025, 20:35
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Timeline of music notation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3021
- 27 Jul 2025, 19:15
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Opus font: Sibelius 7 Acorn Rise OS versions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41587
Re: Opus font: Sibelius 7 Acorn Rise OS versions
The treble clef in today's Opus is grotesque. That would have been part of my (pre-Dorico) decision not to use Sibelius, except that the program had a switch to use the original Adobe Sonata font, with its own glyph mapping.
- 03 Jul 2025, 04:15
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico 6.0.20 update, BIG fix
- Replies: 4
- Views: 118952
Re: Dorico 6.0.20 update, BIG fix
What an amazing program.
- 01 Jul 2025, 02:09
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Staff and leger line thicknesses
- Replies: 18
- Views: 223575
Re: Staff and leger line thicknesses
I opened Bravura.json, a file that's installed with Bravura, in BBEdit. The first section is pasted below. You can open the json file that comes with the font you're using and compare the specs. { "fontName":"Bravura", "fontVersion":1.392, "engravingDefaults":...
- 30 Jun 2025, 19:41
- Forum: Engraving Commentaries
- Topic: Staff and leger line thicknesses
- Replies: 18
- Views: 223575
Re: Staff and leger line thicknesses
I think that settings in the .json file for the font you're using can affect staff line thickness if, when you choose the font from the Music Fonts menu in Dorico, you check the box to Use Font's Recommended Engraving Options.
- 18 May 2025, 21:53
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Splentino - by benwiggy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 78462
Re: Splentino - by benwiggy
It's a variation on the fine traditional font Plantin, and it's very well done. Thanks Ben.
- 17 May 2025, 16:45
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: Music Theory Forum?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 56077
Re: Music Theory Forum?
Reddit and Facebook both have theory forums. I haven't followed them enough to know how similar they are to notat.io.
- 30 Apr 2025, 13:03
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico 6 released!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23180
Re: Dorico 6 released!
Nice review, Ben! Thank you.
John R.
John R.
- 24 Apr 2025, 02:14
- Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
- Topic: New member
- Replies: 4
- Views: 34241
Re: New member
No "like" function or "read" indication that I know of. The forum software seems to have a lot of features, most of which I don't know how to use. Take a look at Notifications (towards the top right) > Settings. I don't know what kind of Notifications it means, but there are a lo...