On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:33 AM, bill wrote:
I had a thought about about a new articulations font:
From what I am hearing, there are not a lot of jazz articulations
needed, so
I am thinking about an all-inclusive "Articulations" font that contains
everything (both jazz and legit). There seems to be plenty of slots
in the
font to accommodate them all. I don't know about you all, but I'm
still not
satisfied with any of the out-of-the-box articulations in the fonts
that MM
supplies. Maybe I could put together an articulations font that all
of us
agree with for everything and be done with it.
All of us agree??!! Wow, that's the most optimistic thing I think I've
ever read on this list! 8-)
For what it's worth, I'm not really interested in doing the work
unless it
can be "the definitive" font for articulations, so I guess I'm asking
for
input from anyone here. I trust you guys way more than those who
influence
MM's "artistic" decisions, and I admit that I don't know
everything...especially with jazz articulations.
Well, I have my pet peeves about some of the JazzFont articulations,
but I don't know that everyone shares my views. Some are fine, some are
too stylised (fermata), some are too short (tenuto), some are just too
bold ("loud" I think you said – that about sums it up!) like the falls
and the staccato, and some are missing (a curved falloff that doesn't
curve back on itself, for one.)
How do you want to proceed?
Christopher
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