i watched the video chuck mentioned and wonder if it could be hacked to provide a nice way to build a new music symbols library. normally i would do this with multiple text expressions, or (yuck!) as a multi-component shape expression; both these approaches are unsatisfying.
for example, if you set the foundation (A, for example) to a snare drum character, you could have various manifestations of additional symbols replaced to show (for example) snare sticks striking the instrument in various ways: e.g., ord, with butt, hoop crack, stick on stick rim shot... so instrument symbols assigned to the notes and playing techniques to the suffixes. would be a pain in the ass to do this in finale's chord editor, but it looks like the graphic approch in dorico would make this a breeze, no? it would be awesome if you could change the angle of the symbols... add to that the possibility to add lines, shapes and you would essentially have a mini graphics editor inside the software. -- neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com new music notation + arts management + translation [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
