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by benwiggy
10 Dec 2023, 16:55
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: What a difference a line makes!
Replies: 10
Views: 148807

What a difference a line makes!

It is occasionally asked whether lyric extension lines serve any useful purpose -- and sometimes one sees scores that don't use them. I recently had to sing the following**, where the words "Christ" and "Christ-mas" were both used in melismas; so you had to decide what vowel you ...
by benwiggy
02 Dec 2023, 17:51
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Finale 27.4 released
Replies: 14
Views: 184601

Finale 27.4 released

Just to keep up to date, Finale has released the .4 update to version 27. It offers an unusually lengthy list of fixes and minor improvements; but this has been marred by some installation problems, and on Windows, the loss of access to third-party PDF generators, like Cute PDF. Scoring Notes has a ...
by benwiggy
01 Dec 2023, 09:33
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplet values
Replies: 8
Views: 77496

Re: Tuplet values

You could be right; the quality of both original the print and the scan make it hard to determine. But when I zoom in, it could be a 2 after all.

Ah yes, there are other instances of the same pattern where it's clearly a 2. Stand down.
by benwiggy
01 Dec 2023, 07:57
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplet values
Replies: 8
Views: 77496

Re: Tuplet values

Perhaps the 3 was a misreading of a badly drawn 8 in the manuscript....?
by benwiggy
30 Nov 2023, 18:50
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Tuplet values
Replies: 8
Views: 77496

Tuplet values

We're in 9/8. This bar has 8 demisemiquavers (32nds?) in the time of 12; but the tuplet is marked "3".
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Surely it should be 2, or 4, or 8...?
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by benwiggy
18 Nov 2023, 09:43
Forum: Manual Notation
Topic: The Stravigor?
Replies: 6
Views: 38481

The Stravigor?

I've heard it said that Igor Stravinsky invented this wheeled rastrum, so he could write staff lines on any paper.The outbreak of WW1 meant he didn't patent it.

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by benwiggy
23 Oct 2023, 16:46
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: SCORE-based fonts
Replies: 11
Views: 11491

Re: SCORE-based fonts

Coming back to this old thread. Nostalgia for SCORE glyphs seems over-rated, IMV. The C and cut C symbols are awful - very square. Tuplet numbers are not italic, and 'computery'. Ottava symbols are like 'normal' italic text. Screenshot 11.png The clefs, noteheads and accidentals are lovely, I'll gra...
by benwiggy
06 Sep 2023, 17:10
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

Is it then something you create as a user from a text editor capable of XML saving/reading or can you create it from within Dorico? I believe that is not documented, right? When editing the few scripts I have created I wondered if there were a list of commands the users could browse through to crea...
by benwiggy
06 Sep 2023, 16:48
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

To be sure I understand: is the doricolib something like Sibelius House Style, that you drop into Library Manager and import what you need? Dorico uses XML under the hood to describe and store most of its data: this includes Expression maps, Engraving Options etc; but also notation objects like cle...
by benwiggy
06 Sep 2023, 09:40
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Dorico development issue
Replies: 31
Views: 52937

Re: Dorico development issue

one post 14 months ago I listed 20 requests with what I thought were very detailed descriptions, and almost the entire list pretty much still stands as requests. #10 made it into Dorico 5 so that can be crossed off. #12 did for roots but not suffixes... I get it. The dev team is shorthanded, plus t...