At 06:43 PM 3/24/2007 -0700, Mark D Lew wrote: >You should check your list to see if you have a font with the boring >and unhelpful name "Monotype Modern". >It was very popular in the >Victorian era and will probably look familiar to you. I've seen a >lot of 19th century and early 20th century music published with it, >particularly in America. I'm sure you've seen it.
I looked it up; it's not one that I have. It's closer, but again there's no medium weight. It might be that the appearance of a medium weight in those old scores is just an artifact of the engraving process, the depth of the strike into the metal. >You also might look for anything named "Didot". Most of the 19th >century French vocal music I've seen has lyrics in some sort of Didot- >like font. Personally, I think it's a poor choice. It's got those >thick and thin strokes, so that after the third generation of >photocopying any combination of m, n and u just looks like so many >vertical strokes. Yes, that's what I'm trying to avoid. What I'm doing instead of looking further is scanning the old scores, cleaning up the characters, and creating the font a character at a time. Since these are mostly Italian operas in my collection, finding w, x, and j have been difficult so farm, but I just turned up a German score in the same font. In all of them so far, the English text below the Italian or German is in a different font, unfortunately. Many thanks, Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
