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- 18 Jul 2025, 19:37
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Modern convention on this cello passage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 376
Re: Modern convention on this cello passage
We have a cellist, Neera, who is a regular contributor and hopefully will chime in at some point. Here I am! The slowness in loading pages here slowed me down. I will use Roman numerals from top to bottom note to explain what strings are being used (IV=C, III=G, II=D, I=A) As David said, the first ...
- 18 Jul 2025, 19:13
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Splentino - by benwiggy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11377
Re: Splentino - by benwiggy
Hi Ben,
do you know how to get the ordinals to work with Splentino? When I activate them in the Paragraph Styles dialog, the 'st', 'nd', 'rd', 'th' do not react and stay on the baseline.
Thanks!
do you know how to get the ordinals to work with Splentino? When I activate them in the Paragraph Styles dialog, the 'st', 'nd', 'rd', 'th' do not react and stay on the baseline.
Thanks!
- 29 Jun 2025, 12:50
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: octave line question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21031
Re: octave line question
I agree with Fred G. Unn.
Every time I changed my settings to solve a specific issue, it caused the 80%-ish very good slurs to suddenly look incredibly bad.
For sure I could still improve something here and there, but one needs to be given the luxury to stop and experiment ...
Every time I changed my settings to solve a specific issue, it caused the 80%-ish very good slurs to suddenly look incredibly bad.
For sure I could still improve something here and there, but one needs to be given the luxury to stop and experiment ...
- 29 Jun 2025, 07:47
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: octave line question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21031
Re: octave line question
Slurs become problematic when the interval between first and last note gets big. At that point, no setting will help or, if it will, all other scenarios will be scrambled. In music for strings, when string-crossing passages can get more than two octaves between the lowest and highest note, things wi...
- 27 Jun 2025, 07:22
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: octave line question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21031
Re: octave line question
I agree ...
I spend a very considerable amount of time every day editing slurs' curves ...
One must believe this is very complex to achieve. Oh ... and if you dissect a Sibelius slur in Illustrator, you get three objects one on top of the other!!
I spend a very considerable amount of time every day editing slurs' curves ...
One must believe this is very complex to achieve. Oh ... and if you dissect a Sibelius slur in Illustrator, you get three objects one on top of the other!!
- 27 Jun 2025, 07:18
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Piano reduction
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6039
Re: Piano reduction
In Rozsa's Cello Concerto's piano reduction, the final beating of the "frusta" (in Italian, don't know how to say it in English, it's the same of the opening of Ravel Piano Concerto in G) is written with an instruction for the pianist to clap their hands. Anyway, (nerd) cellist here: if yo...
- 27 Jun 2025, 07:08
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Some remarkable engraving
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2466
Re: Some remarkable engraving
Very insightful indeed, John! Playing my favourite devil's advocate game again: in the first example, let's imagine the engraver didn't expand the space before the fermata. Where would have he placed the SF in your opinion? Just an hypothesis that the spacing may have actually been reserved for the ...
- 27 Jun 2025, 07:02
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Fold out page in PDF
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3683
Re: Fold out page in PDF
When building PDFs that need foldout pages, I usually place every foldout page at the end of the document, with a blank page behind it (unless it is a recto-verso foldout like one see in, f.e., Barenreiter's Popper Cello Etudes op 73). Like this they will print recto-verso the main pages and then ha...
- 14 Jun 2025, 12:27
- Forum: Manual Notation
- Topic: Original print from 1761, music by Johann Anton Kobrich
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8609
Re: Original print from 1761, music by Johann Anton Kobrich
Fascinating!
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing!
- 30 May 2025, 08:13
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Beethoven Stems 7
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8642
Re: Beethoven Stems 7
I couldn't agree more. Yesterday I was proofreading an upcoming edition and even the horizontal spacing affected the stem length and beam angle of exactly equal situations. For example, in a system with only 3 bars (the first system), longer stems were preferable, while 4 bars and more cramped situa...