On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
While I think the Jazz Font settings look very poor by default, I also
think it's very possible to get good results with the font if you
spend some time setting up your own template. There are examples on my
music prep website, and, not to climb on a high horse or anything, but
I don't think they look like "very amateur hand copying." (They would
look even better if Robert's Patterson Beams supported my ideal beam
thickness of 15 EVPUs.)
I would also have to agree with those who feel that the choice of font
is relatively unimportant compared to the details of size, layout,
spacing, phrasing, line weights, placement, etc, that separate a
well-copied chart from a poorly-copied chart.
In fact, the main reason I used the Jazz Font in the first place was
not the music characters, but the text enclosures, which are
absolutely key in sight-reading situations. This is why I hesitated
long and hard before switching to Maestro for my own work. (Which is
still an experiment -- I may still switch back to JazzFont, especially
if Bill comes out with a nice manuscript-style chord font.) There is
still not really any equivalent to the Jazz Text enclosures in any
non-manuscript font. There is Bill Duncan's Enclosure font, which is
very nice, but -- unlike Jazz Text -- lacks the ability to include a
visual cue as to whether it has been assigned above the staff or
below.
Not that I would be particularly eager to kludge this, but now that you
can mix fonts in text expressions you CAN use the JazzText enclosures
with other fonts.
I'm not convinced that it would necessarily look great, though. Those
enclosures (like everything else in JazzFont) are pretty bold, and suit
the JazzText better than they suit any other font that I commonly use.
Christopher
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