On 23 Jun, 2004, at 08:40 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
Darcy,
Go to
http://www.gwmp.com/MusicFontsFrameset.htm
and you'll see examples of the fonts that you can click on,
AHA. OK, that gives me some more information.
and individual pricing for font sets. It seems to be oriented around Maestro-compatible extras, rather that JazzFont, though what I see looks very good, particularly the harp fonts, if you find yourself doing that often.
He has devised an ingenious workaround for slash-chords of both types, though it would still be an enormous pain if you were using a lot of them, as I'm sure you do! Finale should make this easier.
What I see is decent, but I still have reservations. For instance, I think the angle of his "alternate bass" slash is far too shallow, and would probably use Finale's (especially now that you can have the alternate bass offset below and to the right, instead of just in the same horizontal plane). His tall parentheses are nice. Of course, I would want to change all of the "MA" and "mi" to geometric symbols (∆, -, ø, etc.) and I don't know how easy that would be if all of these chord symbols are single-character glyphs.
I may write to Bill and see if he'll send me the PDFs of the character maps for his fonts, so I can make an informed decision. (I don't know why he doesn't make those available on his web site.)
- Darcy
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