Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
I don't perceive advantages of having text and notation in a single
font.
Fonts of this type are called "music in text" fonts, and they are
essential for any writing that includes musical examples.
It is understood that such fonts do not contain a complete set of
musical symbols, nor a complete set of text symbols, but rather the
more important of each. Typically, the alphanumeric characters are
assigned to their typewriter values, while music characters are placed
in the upper-level ASCII positions.
I am aware of the existence and benefits of music fonts whose size and
baseline characteristics make them suitable for use in texts. In fact,
the full Unicode set in 4.0 contains some 200 plus music glyphs, but
even at that, the existing glyphs will not in themselves provide a
complete set of glyphs to support music notation in Finale, that is,
even if Finale handled unicode, and the full set of characters from the
Unicode specification was included in a particular font, it would still
be necessary to include an additional font of "notation extras".
ns
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