Dear Finale and Sibelius Listers: Just a heads-up that I will soon commence development of JazzSymbol, a variant of my ChordSymbol Unicode font tailored specifically to commercial music. Based on the less formal-looking Arial Narrow, JazzSymbol will provide commercial musicians with any chord symbol they will ever need in an informal typography more suitable to popular idioms. If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to have in JazzSymbol, please let me know. Upon request, I can send out a PDF listing the contents of ChordSymbol's commercial range so you can see what's there now--I think all conceivable suffixes and tensions, and much else, nearly 1000 characters all told. Substantive contributors to the design of JazzSymbol will receive free copies of the font. As with ChordSymbol, JazzSymbol will feature TrueType subfonts replicating the Unicode functionality of the main font until MakeMusic can bring Finale into Unicode compliance. I understand this is no small logistical hurdle, but it is one that the good people at Sibelius have surmounted, giving their users a huge advantage when it comes to chord symbol entry as made possible already with ChordSymbol. Please keep in mind that JazzSymbol may be incorporated into textbooks and various sorts of digital teaching materials, and that The Virtual Conservatory will begin publishing such materials this year. So if you have anything you'd like to put out through us, or if you wish to request special additions to JazzSymbol for your particular publishing purposes, please let me know. We'll probably sell JazzSymbol for about $50 per copy, with liberal student adoption terms (perhaps $5 per copy for 10 or more copies distributed by instructors). Hopefully I can have the new font ready by March. Thanks much, and happy holidays. Best, jrc
Dr. John R. Clevenger, Manager The Virtual Conservatory 50 S. Patterson Ave., #203 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 Phone and fax: (805) 964-7988 (for fax, ignore answering machine) Email: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Web site: _www.virtualconservatory.com_ (http://www.virtualconservatory.com/) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
