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Re: Renaissance Font Reproduction for Historical Music Notation Software
There are two separate things to consider here: 1. The musical notation system as a system, which includes vocal text when present; independent of a particular medium. 2. The way in which that notati…2 -
Re: Books on developing font weights?
My copy of the Samara book arrived yesterday. So far I have only looked at the illustrations, which as least seem to include some useful and fairly novel ways of presenting and explicating comparativ…1 -
Re: Renaissance Font Reproduction for Historical Music Notation Software
It is important to remember that input ≠ encoding. There are multiple text representations of music notation already in use in tools—Lilypond’s syntax, MusicXML, SMuFL—but no recognised standard that…2 -
Re: Renaissance Font Reproduction for Historical Music Notation Software
My experience with fonts for mathematics—which have some similar levels of complexity in arrangement—makes me think that fonts are too low level to be trying to solve music notation. At most, fonts w…2 -
Re: PGF-Trajanite
It could, but I think that would be way less interesting. The opening of the aperture and the more ‘reaching’ arch is a nice feature introduced in the 2021 version: much more dynamic than the earlier…1
