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by benwiggy
12 Apr 2021, 12:41
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: The Dolphin, Number 2, 1935
Replies: 10
Views: 18369

Re: The Dolphin, Number 2, 1935

I wonder: has anyone made a font of that old Breitkopf "modern type"? As for The Dolphin: I ticked the No.2 box with a page image, then clicked the Download 'icon" in the top right. Then under Downloads in the sidebar, I could download the file. (There's a bit of click-through, but th...
by benwiggy
11 Apr 2021, 18:49
Forum: Books and Sites
Topic: The Dolphin, Number 2, 1935
Replies: 10
Views: 18369

Re: The Dolphin, Number 2, 1935

I used to have a book that was a little history of '400 years of music printing', produced by the British Library, (sadly, I can't find it on my shelves...), which covered all this stuff in sufficient detail. But this is lovely. And as with notation software, it's true that InDesign doesn't make you...
by benwiggy
10 Apr 2021, 12:09
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: The Nota Bene in Beethoven's op. 90
Replies: 4
Views: 3018

Re: The Nota Bene in Beethoven's op. 90

Just once again, to say how much I love your extraordinary insight.
by benwiggy
05 Apr 2021, 08:32
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: LS Iris - handwritten music font
Replies: 4
Views: 3875

Re: LS Iris - handwritten music font

Is Odod's Arensky font available?
by benwiggy
03 Apr 2021, 14:16
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: LS Iris - handwritten music font
Replies: 4
Views: 3875

LS Iris - handwritten music font

I'm not a big fan of musical handwritten fonts, but this one by Luis Salgueiro is one of the few that I actually quite like. (If that isn't damning it with faint praise!) His blog is here: https://www.lsalgueiro.com/blog/2021/ls-iris-is-finally-for-sale and the font can be bought from Abraham Lee's ...
by benwiggy
16 Mar 2021, 12:22
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: How to make a SMuFL font
Replies: 5
Views: 5758

Re: How to make a SMuFL font

It does indeed. I'm currently talking to "support" about the fact that you can write the 'note' attribute of a glyph (ie. a comment note, not a musical note!) -- but you can't read it! So in order to use the SMuFL names in the font JSON file, you can either rename the glyphs with the SMuFL...
by benwiggy
09 Mar 2021, 13:37
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: How to make a SMuFL font
Replies: 5
Views: 5758

How to make a SMuFL font

I've written an article for Scoring Notes about my experience of making a SMuFL font. Not much I haven't expressed here, in one place or other, but it's nice to have it all coming together. https://www.scoringnotes.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-smufl-font/ I'm working on python scripts for FontLab 7 t...
by benwiggy
25 Feb 2021, 17:03
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Ugly slurs
Replies: 3
Views: 2661

Re: Ugly slurs

RMK wrote: 24 Feb 2021, 14:22 most likely engraved with SCORE.
If a good engraver can get decent results from any software, then the opposite is also true!
by benwiggy
25 Feb 2021, 12:55
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Up- and down- flags: different widths
Replies: 3
Views: 2917

Re: Up- and down- flags: different widths

Certainly, the simplest design is to have the flags be identical, just flipped. But that doesn't mean that more precision shouldn't be used.
by benwiggy
23 Feb 2021, 10:33
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Flat slurs
Replies: 36
Views: 28744

Re: Flat slurs

Interestingly, in the examples of engraved clef changes, the clefs don't sit on the G line, but are much lower: presumably this is done to stop the ball hitting the staff line, and to get the loop at the top sitting nicely in a space.