I've been using Finale since v. 1 and had no idea Toccatta was
included. Don't know if that's MM's fault or mine.
Chuck
On Sep 9, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I'm not sure that most people even know that Finale installs a bunch
of fonts other than Maestro and Jazz....and the new Broadway font. Is
there a section in the online manual about the additional fonts? Or a
list of characters and the key combos to get them out?
I don't think so. I'd have to boot up the music computer to check. But
if there is no mention of Toccatta or other fonts and the extra
characters someone might suggest to MakeMusic to put it in the manual.
But I don't think Toccatta was really part of Finale, I thought that
was a shareware thing by Blake Hodgetts.
http://www.efn.org/~bch/AboutFonts.html
Though maybe MakeMusic is including the font now with Finale........I
don't know. But it is good to know that this character exists in a
font.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David W. Fenton
<lists.fin...@dfenton.com> wrote:
Er, Finale doesn't do Unicode, so what use would that be in Finale?
And, of course, you'd still have to have a font that had that
character defined. That is, just because the Unicode standard
allocates a slot for a particular glyph doesn't mean that every font
implements every glyph (if you think about it, you'd realize that
would be silly -- it would require 65K-odd glyphs defined in every
font).
It also seems peculiar to me that so many people would suggest add-on
fonts when one of the fonts included with Finale since at least
Finale 3.x (i.e., Toccatta) includes the requested glyph, unless, of
course, the add-on font is superior to Toccatta (so far as I recall,
nobody has suggested that, but it could still be true).
Doesn't everyone examine the fonts that come with Finale for useful
items?
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