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by jrethorst
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...
by jrethorst
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.
by jrethorst
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.
by jrethorst
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":...
by jrethorst
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.
by jrethorst
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.
by jrethorst
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.
by jrethorst
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.
by jrethorst
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...