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- 12 Apr 2021, 12:41
- Forum: Books and Sites
- Topic: The Dolphin, Number 2, 1935
- Replies: 10
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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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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?
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 25 Feb 2021, 17:03
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Ugly slurs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2661
- 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.
- 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.