On 27.04.2002 14:53 Uhr, d. collins wrote

> Being very fond of typography, fonts, etc., I would find it a shame, at
> least for the "free" entries, not to be able to use any music font and text
> font one finds suitable for the piece in question. This is an important
> aspect of musical engraving, and can completely change the look of the
> score. So I would consider it reasonable for the "imposed" pieces to not
> take into account this aspect (and not expect people to either go buy or
> copy with a font editor a font they don't happen to regularly use), but, on
> the contrary, for the "free" entries, to encourage typographical creativity
> and let people use whatever fonts they want, including their own, since
> you'll only be judging the end result, and not impose a font as dull and
> bland as Times.

It depends very much whether this is more a test of notation software or
more a competition between engravers. I'll have to think about this.

Johannes
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http://www.musikmanufaktur.com
http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de

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