Hi Darcy and others,
No one I know uses or likes the Jazz fonts, so I had no idea that there
was so much interest in this. Is it possible for you or someone to
send me a pdf scan of what you think is ideal? Also, Chuck Israels and
Greg Hamilton expressed interest in a jazz articulation font that is
not as "loud" as the jazz font but nicer than improvising from an
existing text font or those awful Finale "shapes" that are pretty
useless from an Automatic Music Spacing aspect. I am not a jazzer, so
I don't really have a good vocabulary of those and any input would be
appreciated, as I think that font as well would be useful to all.
I will be able to start work on one or both at the end of November, and
any/all input is welcome.
Bill Duncan
On Oct 22, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Bill,
I don't think Chris meant that he wanted you to copy JazzChord exactly
-- which would might involve copyright issues (although I don't know
-- there are obviously lots of font knock-off versions out there). I
think he just meant that he would be interested in a
handwritten-looking version of ChordSuf, which would not involve any
copyright issues at all. [Nobody owns the copyright on any and all
handwritten-style chord fonts!]
Given your expertise, I'm sure you could come up with a
handwritten-looking chord font that is far superior to anything else
out there -- and if you're looking for inspiration, check out Sher
Music Co's "The Standards Real Book" -- which is by far the
nicest-looking "handwritten" chord font I've seen. It is
(unfortunately) not for sale. But if you could come up with something
of similar quality, that included the ease-of-use of ChordSuf, I'm
sure it would sell like gangbusters.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 22 Oct 2005, at 3:48 PM, bill wrote:
Hi Christopher,
I would be happy to except that MakeMusic would have to sanction it
because
of their copyright issues. I have had problems with them in the
past, and
they have absolutely no interest (that I know of) in the work I have
done
with my chord font set. Possibly you and other interested parties
could
"petition" MM to allow me to do it, as I seem to carry little weight
with
them on my own.
Bill Duncan
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:40:15 -0400
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Subject: [Finale] Jazz version of ChordSuf?
Bill Duncan,
Glad to see you on the list, where I can publicly buttonhole you and
ask you outright: Any chance of you coming up with a chord suffix
font
like your brilliant, ingenious ChordSuf, but that matches more
closely
with the JazzFont, to replace the inadequate JazzCord? I, for one,
would be an enthusiastic client, and I hope that some of the other
listers who (try to) use JazzFont in their work will support me on
this.
Then, in an ideal world, MakeMusic will pay you big bucks to include
it
in the next version of Finale...
Hopefully,
Christopher
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