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by benwiggy
03 Jun 2022, 11:47
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Replies: 19
Views: 43915

Re: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score

Just to update: v2.04 now has even better kerning(!), a few more characters (including the T caron for Kaťa Kabanová), some discretionary ligatures for fj and ij, and other improvements. https://github.com/benwiggy/nepomuk/releases I'm hoping that's probably reached a sufficient level of ... suffici...
by benwiggy
02 Jun 2022, 15:17
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
Replies: 4
Views: 3411

Re: harmonic diamonds on whole notes

The lopsided-ness comes from two things: firstly that the diamond is not as wide as the semibreve note; and also from the notional 'stem' to which the noteheads are attached.

Alternatively, you could create a playing technique with the diamond shape, which would always be centered on the notehead.
by benwiggy
01 Jun 2022, 17:53
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico 4.1 and iPad 'lifetime' purchase
Replies: 0
Views: 78728

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...
by benwiggy
01 Jun 2022, 17:47
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
Replies: 7
Views: 15160

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,...
by benwiggy
01 Jun 2022, 06:47
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: harmonic diamonds on whole notes
Replies: 4
Views: 3411

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 ...
by benwiggy
23 May 2022, 10:46
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud
Replies: 7
Views: 15160

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 ...
by benwiggy
20 May 2022, 18:01
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Replies: 19
Views: 43915

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.
by benwiggy
20 May 2022, 06:38
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Replies: 19
Views: 43915

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...
by benwiggy
19 May 2022, 17:35
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Florian's Nepomuk - and reimagining a Durand score
Replies: 19
Views: 43915

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...
by benwiggy
18 May 2022, 13:29
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Beethoven brainteaser
Replies: 3
Views: 3266

Re: Beethoven brainteaser

This is 12/8, presumably? Does it match a syncopated pattern elsewhere in the score?