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by NeeraWM
18 Jul 2025, 19:37
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Modern convention on this cello passage
Replies: 9
Views: 356

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 ...
by NeeraWM
18 Jul 2025, 19:13
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Splentino - by benwiggy
Replies: 4
Views: 11187

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!
by NeeraWM
29 Jun 2025, 12:50
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: octave line question
Replies: 20
Views: 20485

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 ...
by NeeraWM
29 Jun 2025, 07:47
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: octave line question
Replies: 20
Views: 20485

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...
by NeeraWM
27 Jun 2025, 07:22
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: octave line question
Replies: 20
Views: 20485

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!!
by NeeraWM
27 Jun 2025, 07:18
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Piano reduction
Replies: 8
Views: 5756

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...
by NeeraWM
27 Jun 2025, 07:08
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Some remarkable engraving
Replies: 4
Views: 2395

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 ...
by NeeraWM
27 Jun 2025, 07:02
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Fold out page in PDF
Replies: 4
Views: 3567

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...
by NeeraWM
30 May 2025, 08:13
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Beethoven Stems 7
Replies: 10
Views: 8516

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...