Re: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol (replies to June 22, 2010 digest)

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Mathew
Moi, aussi! S'il vous plait. From: jclev...@aol.com Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:16:06 -0400 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol (replies to June 22, 2010 digest) In a message dated 6/22/2010 10:00:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, finale-requ

[Finale] Re: JazzSymbol

2010-06-22 Thread Marcello Noia
Having a look at the flyer I see that the fonts look like those used by recent Sher Music real books. Nice look and readability Good work Marcello ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Smith
Marcello, Which Sher books are those? All the ones I own (about 8) use an in- house font based on the nib-pen work of their head copyist (except for the New Real Book Vol 1, which is actually hand-copied; amazing but true). None that I have use an Arial-based chord font. Can you point me

Re: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol

2010-06-22 Thread Marcello Noia
Yes I was talking about those beautiful custom made fonts (see New Real Book series). In fact of good readability they look similar to those from JazzSymbol Christopher Smith ha scritto: Marcello, Which Sher books are those? All the ones I own (about 8) use an in-house font based on the

[Finale] Re: JazzSymbol (replies to June 22, 2010 digest)

2010-06-22 Thread JClevESM
from several Finale users. Thanks, jrc == Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:13:05 +0200 From: Marcello Noia marcellon...@gmail.com Subject: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol To: finale@shsu.edu finale@shsu.edu Message-ID: 4c208cb1.8090...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Re: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol development

2010-01-09 Thread Jari Williamsson
jclev...@aol.com wrote: In fact, with the Unicode JazzSymbol, virtually every conceivable chord suffix and tension can be entered in one click. You're talking about something like 2000 symbols, how do you access all those in one click? Also, I have some questions regarding the flyer for

[Finale] Re: JazzSymbol development

2010-01-08 Thread JClevESM
Hey folks. Let me respond to several points raised here regarding my impending development of JazzSymbol. First, although my main development is in Unicode, I have templates for c ross-platform TrueType fonts usable with Finale until MakeMusic can make Finale Unicode-compliant. So I will

[Finale] Re: JazzSymbol and Finale-specific font-handling mechanisms

2010-01-07 Thread jclevesm
In a message dated 1/7/2010 10:00:27 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, finale-requ...@shsu.edu writes: Message: 4 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:58:25 -0500 From: Giz Bowe girard...@verizon.net Subject: Re: [Finale] JazzSymbol To: finale@shsu.edu Message-ID: 0kvu0098jl3e8...@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net

Re: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol and Finale-specific font-handling mechanisms

2010-01-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Thu Jan 7, at ThursdayJan 7 2:52 PM, jclev...@aol.com wrote: But I'll check out Dom Casual or other handwritten look options for a follow-on product for those who strongly prefer the most casual look. When you check out Dom Casual, let me fill you in what is nice and what is bad

Re: [Finale] Re: JazzSymbol and Finale-specific font-handling mechanisms

2010-01-07 Thread dershem
jclev...@aol.com wrote: The JazzFont is in serious need of an overhaul, and I would gladly pay $50 for a chord font which improved the current Jazz Text font used for chords, but to my eye, Arial Narrow doesn't really fill the bill. Even something similar to Dom Casual would be an