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Mysterious keys D

Posted: 17 Nov 2015, 05:56
by OCTO
Do anyone has idea why in all Make Music's music fonts there is no symbol on the keys D and d?

Re: Mysterious keys D

Posted: 17 Nov 2015, 07:16
by Knut
Hmm…, I've never notice that. Can't think of a reason why, but it doesn't apply to all MM fonts. Engraver has glyphs at both codepoints.

Re: Mysterious keys D

Posted: 17 Nov 2015, 08:09
by OCTO
Right.
Sonata, Petrucci and Maestro don't have it.

Re: Mysterious keys D

Posted: 17 Nov 2015, 09:20
by Knut
In that case, it might just be an oddity carried over from Sonata to Petrucci, and from Petrucci to Maestro.

Sonata established the convention of assigning symbols to the most intuitive character slots based on similarity of shape or name (e.g. Segno in assigned to % and quarter note to q/Q). D and d might have been left empty for the sake of intuitive mapping, but I doubt it.

Re: Mysterious keys D

Posted: 17 Nov 2015, 10:04
by OCTO
I doubt it too. Strange.
Keys ∆ and ∂ are mapped, though.