On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
The problems with the JazzFont (especially JazzCord and JazzText) are the same as those with Swing, except the characters look a little finer in Swing. The same missing glyphs, the same badly- formed articulations and letters, the same lack of lower-case letters, the same ridiculous hoops to jump through to come close to a legible and complete chord suffix set.
And the one characteristic all imitation hand written fonts share - that each symbol looks identical every time it appears, and this makes everything look wrong to a reader who is lead to expect normal human variation. These fonts invariably look distracting to my eye, and I fail to see the point of them. Good handwriting can be attractive, efficient and even beautiful, but a computer imitating handwriting produces a disturbing "visual dichotomy." I am grateful that Bill Duncan took the time to meet with Greg Hamilton and me, and to consult with Darcy and come up with a set of articulation symbols that allow jazz charts to be done in Maestro without resorting to combining Maestro with the clunky Jazz Font scoops and fall-offs. And his ChordSymbol and ChordSuffix fonts aren't too shabby either - not only for chords, but fbut the slashes and rhythmic notation too.
Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
