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- 01 Jun 2022, 17:53
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Dorico 4.1 and iPad 'lifetime' purchase
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Dorico 4.1 and iPad 'lifetime' purchase
Dorico 4.1 is now out: with more MIDI editors, notably the dynamics lane. Lots of improvements to Lyrics: individual syllables (or characters) can be edited with different styles; ignore punctuation in alignment; elision slurs can be adjusted globally. It also warns you if your open project is modif...
- 01 Jun 2022, 17:47
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
- Replies: 7
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Re: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
Ooh nice. One really great feature of Illustrator is/was that you could open a page from a PDF file, edit it, and 'put it back'. On a related, but disappointing note: FontExplorerX is being EOLed. They stop selling it at the end of June, and support only til July 2023. I guess everyone who needs it,...
- 01 Jun 2022, 06:47
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
- Replies: 4
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Re: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
Dorico uses the "White Diamond" Notehead set for harmonics, and SMuFL provides different noteforms in diamond style to match each of the notehead types. I agree it's a curious decision; Daniel does know it's not ideal and needs revising. You can change this very easily in the Notehead set ...
- 23 May 2022, 10:46
- Forum: Digital Notation Tools
- Topic: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
- Replies: 7
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Re: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
Just to update this list, 2 years on: The Affinity suite of apps has addressed many of the shortcomings, particular those with importing PDFs. Inkscape is now much more user-friendly on the Mac: it's available as an application bundle, without any additional installations. For web editing, Pinegrow ...
- 20 May 2022, 18:01
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
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Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Actually, I've just done a 'hot-fix'. Small caps are a little thicker; a couple of rogue glyphs have been fixed, and the kerning may or may not be improved.
- 20 May 2022, 06:38
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
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Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
I agree that the Bold, certainly, seems a little light compared to the caps. I used Fontlab's "automatic" kerning to standardize most of the letters. I can see your point on the I of incredible, perhaps, but the D of Dante looks almost too close by my reckoning. The rest look pretty good t...
- 19 May 2022, 17:35
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
- Replies: 19
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Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
I've released a new version, 2.03, of Nepomuk. There are now Small Caps variants in both Regular and Bold, so you can use small caps in apps that don't support OpenType features.** (I've actually swapped the lowercase and small caps glyphs, so if you do use it in an app like InDesign, turning ON the...
- 18 May 2022, 13:29
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Beethoven brainteaser
- Replies: 3
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Re: Beethoven brainteaser
This is 12/8, presumably? Does it match a syncopated pattern elsewhere in the score?
- 11 May 2022, 15:12
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Henle Notehead size
- Replies: 4
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Re: Henle Notehead size
Some more data points: Maestro Wide: 1.41 spaces. Finale Engraver: 1.43 spaces. VintageGHMA: both 1.31 and 1.41. Sonata: 1.2. Though some do have different sizes for the black and white noteheads: the black heads being usually smaller, but larger in some fonts! Perhaps a square root of 2 * the space...
- 11 May 2022, 13:39
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Henle Notehead size
- Replies: 4
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Henle Notehead size
One thing I noticed while making comparisons to Henle's engraving, is that their noteheads are quite wide. Screenshot 4.png If we compare the width to 1 space, the notehead is about 1.45 spaces (fuzzy bitmapping notwithstanding). Screenshot 6.png Maestro's default noteheads are about 1.27 spaces. Br...