David W. Fenton schrieb:
Well, I think that font has hideously ugly numbers. I much prefer the
numbers to be more of a text font type of font, rather than similar
to fat time signature and fingering numbers.
Absolutely, that's one reason I made my own font. Which is actually not
very difficult.
Secondly, the variations for the same figure are limited. For
instance, the Opus Figured Bass font has these variations for 6:
6 6+ #6 b6 natural 6 6# 6b 6 natural slashed 6 (6)
All of those variations are available as single font characters.
If I understand correctly, your complaint is that you need to make up
those figures from several characters. Personally I prefer that to a
fixed set, especially as Ansgar's or my font actually have many more
variants of a slashed six, and I prefer that. Sometimes, especially with
French figured bass it does matter which way a 6 is slashed. YMMV.
There are also multiple versions of slashed 4 and slashed 5, for
instance.
That's another reason why I made my own font. I used the same keyboard
layout pretty much as Ansgar, but with more variants of slashed figures.
While I don't know that converting the variant of figures in a source
to a single modern version in any way compromises transmission of the
figures, I much prefer conveying the exact text of the source, and I
couldn't do that with a font that didn't have all the variations.
But you can't do that with any font, other than a homemade one, which is
why I did exactly that. I just add other figures if and when I need them.
What I don't like about using the font with vertically-defined
variants is that you then have to put in the whole string of figured
bass (or, at least, every unique vertical configuration that occurs),
I don't understand what you mean. If you want to enter
6
4
2
you press 6,r,s and it is there. Much easier than having to switch
between lyrics. But perhaps I am not seeing your problem.
whereas the method I use doesn't require that at all. I find it much
easier to click assign from a list of unique single figures, rather
than from a list of the unique combinations of figures.
But that's not what Ansgar's font does. Have you tried the demo?
Figuring out
the latter is too much work, and would then make click assignment
really difficult. Either you have to go through and figure out all
the unique combinations first, and then put them in in a logical
order, or you create them as needed, which means they are very hard
to find for click assignment. Of course, the other option is putting
everything in, including duplicates, and then just linearly click
assigning the numbers.
I have a feeling you have not quite understood how Ansgar's font works,
but perhaps I am wrong and just not understanding your problem.
As I said, the only thing that was a lyrics feature request that was
specific to figured bass was switching verses easily within the click
assignment window. Since I discovered that the scrollbar already
allows you to do that, there are no longer any figured-bass specific
feature requests in my list -- all of my requests would make lyrics
entry easier in all contexts.
I think the way Ansgar's font works actually would make your life even
easier. YMMV.
Johannes
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