On 06.01.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
You left out something important: what you *do* with the font.
True, however, the web page does tell you in every detail.
I did my first figured bass as articulations. The problem there is
vertical alignment.
Then I switched to use lyrics, which is much easier. I believe you
use lyrics, too, though from there on we depart in how we do it. You
use the special figured bass font and a single verse, I use a normal
font with figured bass figures (the one that comes with Sibelius) and
use multiple verses to maintain vertical alignment.
Well, have you ever tried using a specialized font like Ansgar's? I have
tried both, and entering the figures in different verses with a normal
font is, in my experience, many, many, many times more time consuming
than using a special font.
Naturally, the downside is that if you pass files around to other people
who don't have the font, they won't see the figures, or rather, they
will get all sorts of meaningless characters instead. But if you use
PDFs to pass your files around this won't matter.
I have entered complicated figurings, where almost every bass note had 3
or 4 figures. I can't imagine entering those in different verses. YMMV.
One of the reasons I decided to make my own font for this is a
shortcoming of Ansgar's font when it comes to having progressions on a
single bass note. Ansgar's font is meant to be used as centered lyrics,
making it extremely difficult to position progressions with hard spaces.
My font is designed to be used as left aligned lyrics, this way I can do
this pretty easily.
I should mention that I hardly ever do vocal music and there are
probably problems when you need to have both lyrics and figured bass in
one file.
Johannes
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