Re: [Finale] ligature in custom music font not working in F2012

2012-09-20 Thread Andrew Moschou
Even if Finale now has Unicode support, this doesn't mean that ligatures should work. Automatic ligatures would require a certain level of *OpenType* support. Looks like you'd have to encode them and then access them directly. On 19 September 2012 06:23, SN jef chippewa

Re: [Finale] ligature in custom music font not working in F2012

2012-09-20 Thread SN jef chippewa
dammit that isn't the answer i wanted :-) thanks, andrew. Even if Finale now has Unicode support, this doesn't mean that ligatures should work. Automatic ligatures would require a certain level of *OpenType* support. Looks like you'd have to encode them and then access them directly.

Re: [Finale] ligature in custom music font not working in F2012

2012-09-20 Thread John Howell
On 19 September 2012 06:23, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.comwrote: i am designing a font (open type) containing characters for durations and to be used for tempo indications and time sigs and am trying to get ligatures to work. for example, when i type 2 flagged sixteenth

Re: [Finale] ligature in custom music font not working in F2012

2012-09-20 Thread SN jef chippewa
exactly what do you mean by ligatures? i was talking about building a custom font that included ligatures so that when i type 2 specific characters together, a third in fact shows, which is an alternate (and preferred) version of the combination of the two. check this:

[Finale] ligature in custom music font not working in F2012

2012-09-18 Thread SN jef chippewa
i am designing a font (open type) containing characters for durations and to be used for tempo indications and time sigs and am trying to get ligatures to work. for example, when i type 2 flagged sixteenth notes directly after one another, 2 beamed 16ths result. as i understand, this should