NOTATIO

I'm guessing that RISC OS didn't use font formats that can be copied over to Win/Mac.. Can you print from the emulator to a PDF print queue? That way, you could get the vector glyphs into 2025. I'll ask Ben Finn why these fonts never made it to the non-Acorn ports. (My favourite fact about the Arch...

I’ve been playing around with trying to recreate OpusIV in the current version of Sibelius by rotating and combing glyphs from various Sib and Finale fonts. It’s not quite there, but it’s been interesting to see all the tweaks that were made to the font in various revisions. For example, the quaver ...

I'm running Sibelius7 V3.53 in a RISC OS emulator on my Windows machine. From old floppies I've managed to get copies of OpusII (which doesn't work), OpusIII and OpusIV as well as Manuscript and Rameau. Here is the trumpet line set in each of those: OPUSIII.jpg OPUSIV.jpg rameau.jpg manuscr.jpg Ah ...

Hi everyone, first post here! For those interested in music font design: I’ve got a copy of the Sibelius manual from the ’90s, written by Ben and Jonathan Finn when it was the new kid on the notation software block. Aside from being a generally great read, I was interested to see that the musical ex...