Brad Beyenhof wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I could find the sizes of various characters in
> > Maestro font, such as clefs? For example, how many EVPUs across is a
> > 24-point treble clef, or a bass clef, or a sharp symbol, etc.?
>
> Let me rephrase the question, then. If nobody knows of a *place* where
> I can find this info, I would appreciate any bits of it that anyone
> knows. Clefs and accidentals (including parenthesized and the smaller
> parenthesized accidentals) are the main characters of which I would
> like to know the dimensions. Horizontal dimensions are my primary
> concern, but any and all knowledge is welcome.
I missed the question the first time; I don't know where in Finale to find
the information, but I know a couple of ways to obtain it.
First, a way using "old fashioned" methods:
I created a spread sheet containing two tables. Since I am comfortable
using base-16 (hexadeimal) numbers, mine were 17 spaces high, and 17 spaces
wide; if you are not comfortable with hexadecimal numbers, I'd recommend 11
spaces wide and 25 spaces high.
Skipping the cell at the upper left corner, I labeled the column heads
sequentially, "_ _ 0", "_ _ 1", "_ _ 2", &c. I labeled the rows
sequentially "0 0 _", "0 1 _ ", "_ 2 _", &c. I entered zero in the at the
intersection of the first row and first column ("0 0 _" & "_ _ 0"),
incrementing the contents of each successive cell by 1 across the table, and
by ten (or in hexadecimal, 16) on each successive row.
On the second table, I placed into each cell the formula that printed the
ASCII character which had the ASCII code of the character in same position
in table 1, and set the font for the second table. I can then print out an
ASCII chacter table for any font, by setting the definition of the font in
the second table to the desired font name; setting the font to "Maestro" at
24 point size gave me the Maestro font, which I printed out.
Using the chart and a pair of dividers, I can obtain the width of the space
between two staff lines from character 061 (a segment of 5 line staff,
assigned to the unshifted "+/=" key) and use the dividers to obtain the
sizes, measured in units of "spaces".
There are a couple of high tech ways to do the same thing.
Get into "shape designer"; One way to do this is to select the expression
tool, and indicate you want to create a shape expression. Now, turn on the
grid display, and set the display to the "space" unit, displaying a mark
every one space. Select the text tool in the shape designer, and select the
Maestro font. Now when you enter a character (the sheet you create with the
low-tech method above is useful for determining the ASCII code if you want
to enter using the "alt-0nnn" key combination), it prints the character into
the grid, and you can make your determinations there.
The other high-tech method, if you want more specific information, is to
purchase the "Font Creator Program" from High-logic [cf:
<www.high-logic.com/> ], which will let you load the font, and inspect each
character to determine base lines, x-heights, and other typographic
measurements of specific characters.
If you get really ambition, you can use fcp to personalize notational
elements such as flags, note shapes, clefs, &c....
ns.
>
>
> If this seems to trifling or whatever to discuss on-list, I would
> appreciate private emails as well.
>
> TIA
>
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