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What's the best way to combine these two parts onto one staff, while reducing any ambiguity?

IF it helps, I'm happy to subdivide or otherwise adjust the notes on the upper part, but I would ideally need the lower part preserved.

I've just noticed the older thread "Ten Music Notation Programs", in which you give it a fairly poor review. http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=217 Very reminiscent of the early days of Music Notation Software where I suppose programmers thought people would be so delighted to have su...

It might be very nice to have a list of what typefaces the leading publishing houses use. Even if they are customized versions of common typefaces.

But I suspect that a list of text typefaces that people use might be very large. And the larger the list, the less useful it becomes.

It has only recently occurred to me (Doh!) that the reason for the zero-width was so that different glyphs could be typed together and appear at the same horizontal position. Hence the font having the same numerals in different heights. That's not how I use it -- I use the basic set of figures as ch...

I would have expected Lilypond to handle extensions correctly by default.

If you're looking for a good book of music engraving rules, I can recommend Elaine Gould's "Behind bars", from Faber Music.

I would suggest that it is not acceptable to do without extension lines. The work tends to look unfinished without. Whatever the merits or usefulness of the practice, it is what singers expect, and anything unexpected is a source of confusion. Extensions should be used on the last syllable, if it ha...

OCTO wrote:Personally, choosing fonts in music scores is tourturing for me; now I ended up with the standard fonts.

Ha! That's certainly true for music fonts. I'll like the clefs in one, but not the dynamics. Another has nice flags, but I hate the accidentals.

The trouble is that many free fonts with unfamiliar names (or even some of those bundled with OSes and apps) are versions of "classic" typefaces with familiar names. The Academico that comes with Dorico is essentially an open source rendering of New Century Schoolbook. For my money, the fo...

After vacillating once more, I've come to agree that Bulmer can be a little unclear at small sizes, (though I tend to use it large enough). I've not found anything to beat the legibility of Minion (Condensed Caption is now the preferred face). I think OUP use it? However, it doesn't quite suit the s...

There's been a recent discussion about the free Sebastian Figured Bass font. http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=249 I really like the style of the letters, which are nice 18th-century modern face, similar to time sig numerals. There are different characters for different vertical positions of t...