On 27 Apr 2002, at 14:53, d. collins wrote: > Johannes Gebauer �crit: > > > But then what about text fonts? This was also a problem with the Score > > > competition. If you have lyrics, a title, etc. Will you tell everyone to > > > use Times? > > > >Perhaps? What do you think? > > 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.
I think there's a major issue unresolved here: - Is this an engraving competition or an engraving software competition? That is, is the goal to find the best engraving or to find the best engraving software? If the former, fonts should be entirely left up to the engraver. If the latter, then the fonts should be limited to the engraving software defaults. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
