On 28.04.2002 10:40 Uhr, d. collins wrote > Johannes Gebauer �crit: >> Dennis, I think you are now contradicting yourself: Either you allow any >> fonts to be used as music fonts, in that case the fact whether a certain >> software package comes with several different, good looking fonts, or with >> only one ugly (Petrucci) font is not taken into account. > > I'm sorry, I don't see the contradiction you're referring to.
I thought you were trying to make the point that the fonts a package comes with is part of the quality criteria. If you then allow any fonts to be used, whether included or not, this quality criteria can no longer be judged, since you can't really judge a competition depending on how much money a contestant spent on extra fonts, even font design. So either leave the problem of (music) fonts asside completely, or allow a certain selection of fonts, which is open to anyone. Perhaps the best way would be to limit some of the set pieces to the font set of the app, and allow other set pieces to be engraved with whatever the contestant chooses. > >> I think my choice would be to limit music fonts to anything the software >> comes with, and to allow any text fonts. No Symbol fonts should be allow > > No Symbol fonts? You'd have to define what you mean by Symbol fonts. > Suppose you have a figured bass in one of your pieces? Or ornaments that > require special signs? Finale doesn't allow you to do this properly with > its own fonts. I use my own fonts (either entirely created by myself, or > "customized" versions of commercial fonts, though this might be illegal) > for ornaments, continuo figurings, incipits, etc. And even for some aspects > of the notation which are missing in Finale and required for 17th or 18th > Century music: so called "white" notation, "black" notation. You yourself > use "extra" fonts for your engraving work which can't by any stretch be > considered as "text" fonts. You are of course correct. I was thinking about other fonts, but now I think this was a silly suggestion. So music fonts as included by the package, any text and other fonts. Perhaps the rule should be that anything that is directly music notation, ie clefs, noteheads, flags, accidentals should be limited to the music fonts of the used software. But perhaps even this is not practical, which would mean any fonts can be used. Which brings us back to the beginning... Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
