[Finale] A font question
With every musical-theatre project I compose, I choose a distinct display font for song titles. I installed the font for my upcoming project (blossom.ttf), set up the project's template to use it in Finale 2010, and life was good. Then MakeMusic offered the great deal on 2012, so I bought and installed that, opened my project template in 2012, and Blossom won't show up in the font list. Other fonts I've installed since *do* show up, though. Any idea what the problem might be, or how to remedy it? Thanks, Clay (Fin2012, Mac OSX 10.6.8) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] A font question
Jari W. offered this the other day. Not sure if this is at all the same, or if his solution applies to anything other than music fonts. Maybe someone else can chime in. On 2012-06-27 19:43, Chuck Israels wrote: I am out of town for a week but would be interested to hear if the Bill Duncan FAN issue has been resolved, so that I will know what to do when I get home. There were issues with some symbols showing up in slot positions in the editing matrix that were literally off the grid and therefore next to impossible to access in order edit the FAN files. But that's caused by the font not being listed in MacSymbolFonts.txt. Add any 3rd party music fonts you use to that file, and the problem will go away. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Clay Zambo cza...@mac.com wrote: With every musical-theatre project I compose, I choose a distinct display font for song titles. I installed the font for my upcoming project (blossom.ttf), set up the project's template to use it in Finale 2010, and life was good. Then MakeMusic offered the great deal on 2012, so I bought and installed that, opened my project template in 2012, and Blossom won't show up in the font list. Other fonts I've installed since *do* show up, though. Any idea what the problem might be, or how to remedy it? Thanks, Clay (Fin2012, Mac OSX 10.6.8) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OT - Font question
First - I apologize for cross-postings (I know there are lots of people who read more than one of these lists)! Second - I am looking for a font that closely resembles the handwritten script font I have seen used on the Nutcracker and other mid-20th century engravings, and frequently by Luck's Music Library. I just happen to like it, and admire its mix of readability and casualness. I think that many of you can picture the font I mean - it's an upright (not tilted), somewhat rounded handwritten script. This may be a fruitless search, but I thought I'd ask the smartest group of people I know, just in case. Thanks! (Mr.) Jamin Hoffman 2745 S. 44th St. Milwaukee, WI 53219 (414) 218-2130 jtbh3...@sbcglobal.net www.concordorchestra.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaminhoffman So many composers, so little time! ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT - Font question
On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Jamin Hoffman wrote: Second - I am looking for a font that closely resembles the handwritten script font I have seen used on the Nutcracker and other mid-20th century engravings, and frequently by Luck's Music Library. I just happen to like it, and admire its mix of readability and casualness. I think that many of you can picture the font I mean - it's an upright (not tilted), somewhat rounded handwritten script. Could you provide a link to a picture of the typestyle you want to match? mdl ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT - Font question
On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Jamin Hoffman wrote: Second - I am looking for a font that closely resembles the handwritten script font I have seen used on the Nutcracker and other mid-20th century engravings, and frequently by Luck's Music Library. I just happen to like it, and admire its mix of readability and casualness. I think that many of you can picture the font I mean - it's an upright (not tilted), somewhat rounded handwritten script. I found the logo for Luck's Music Library. That typeface looks like a version of Coronet to me. There are several different realizations of it from different type houses, but they all look similar. (One of the newer ones goes by the name Crestwood.) mdl ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Re: Font Question (a bit late)
Apologies to touch on something that's a couple of weeks old - I just got back from some time in Chicago without e-mail. Some had been talking about some of the jazz fonts such as Jazz and Swing...I wanted to let you know about three others which I feel are much better. At the Express Music Website (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/expressmusic/index.html) you can check out three different fonts - LeeMusic, AshMusic and RussMusic. All three are hand-drawn fonts created by professional copyists and turned into fonts (which luckily work nicely with 2004 and OSX). I use AshMusic myself, but any of them beat the pants off of JazzFont. Just my two cents... -Rob = Rob Deemer Doctoral Candidate in Music Composition, Assistant Director, UT New Music Ensemble The University of Texas at Austin __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Re: Font Question (a bit late)
At 7:07 AM -0700 6/24/04, Rob Deemer wrote: Apologies to touch on something that's a couple of weeks old - I just got back from some time in Chicago without e-mail. Some had been talking about some of the jazz fonts such as Jazz and Swing...I wanted to let you know about three others which I feel are much better. At the Express Music Website (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/expressmusic/index.html) you can check out three different fonts - LeeMusic, AshMusic and RussMusic. All three are hand-drawn fonts created by professional copyists and turned into fonts (which luckily work nicely with 2004 and OSX). I use AshMusic myself, but any of them beat the pants off of JazzFont. Thanks for the tip. I had seen these fonts before, and didn't like them, as they are not as bold as the JazzFont, and some of the glyphs (flats, naturals, clefs, segno, gliss lines, to name a few) are way too stylised for my taste. Some of the text looks nice, though some letters again are too stylised, which what I don't like about the JazzText font. They are certainly alternatives, though! I'd really like a nice compact Speedball type font, like I see in the Clinton Roemer book, for text and chord symbols. I've settled on Dom Regular, but even that tends to be a little too spread, and I don't get those great enclosures that the JazzText font has for expressions. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: Font Question (a bit late)
But tell us, how do you REALLY feel? :-) David H. Bailey Darcy James Argue wrote: I remain stunned that people think these Express Music fonts are any good at all. Lord knows I have as many issues with JazzFont as anyone, but I know how to work around it to get what I want. On the other hand, all three Express Music fonts look like complete ass to me, even by the bottom-of-the-barrel standards of manuscript-look music fonts. None of them would be even remotely acceptable for any of my clients who want a manuscript look. The quarter rests in Ash Music look like rips, for god's sake! The dynamics in LeeMusic are the absolute worst I have ever seen. All of their text fonts are even less legible than JazzText, which really takes some doing. And as Chris points out, none of these fonts have the heaviness of JazzFont, so you have the inherent cheesiness of using a handwritten-type music font but none of the increased clarity and legibility that JazzFont gives you (or can give you, if used right). I don't understand why someone doesn't just pick up a copy of Clinton Roemer's The Art of Music Copying, and make a music and text font set based on that. That's how it ought to look -- it's all right there, in the book, just do it like that. But invariably, whenever someone attempts a manuscript-style music font, it turns out to be a complete embarrassment. Like democracy, JazzFont is the worst of the lot -- except for all the others. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 24 Jun, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 7:07 AM -0700 6/24/04, Rob Deemer wrote: Apologies to touch on something that's a couple of weeks old - I just got back from some time in Chicago without e-mail. Some had been talking about some of the jazz fonts such as Jazz and Swing...I wanted to let you know about three others which I feel are much better. At the Express Music Website (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/expressmusic/index.html) you can check out three different fonts - LeeMusic, AshMusic and RussMusic. All three are hand-drawn fonts created by professional copyists and turned into fonts (which luckily work nicely with 2004 and OSX). I use AshMusic myself, but any of them beat the pants off of JazzFont. Thanks for the tip. I had seen these fonts before, and didn't like them, as they are not as bold as the JazzFont, and some of the glyphs (flats, naturals, clefs, segno, gliss lines, to name a few) are way too stylised for my taste. Some of the text looks nice, though some letters again are too stylised, which what I don't like about the JazzText font. They are certainly alternatives, though! I'd really like a nice compact Speedball type font, like I see in the Clinton Roemer book, for text and chord symbols. I've settled on Dom Regular, but even that tends to be a little too spread, and I don't get those great enclosures that the JazzText font has for expressions. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
