At 2:38 PM -0700 7/10/02, Chuck Israels wrote:
>At 3:13 PM -0400 7/10/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
>>I wish I had Articulation number 63, but rotated 90 degrees 
>>counterclockwise, for a short jazz fall. The others are too long, 
>>or are wavy, or are the wrong shape, like those ones that look like 
>>eighth note flags.
>>
>>Christopher (smith, not zello)
>
>Many years ago (I'm showing my age, and my long association with 
>Finale) there was an articulation font called Newport, which had 
>these kinds of shapes.  Somehow, after all these upgrades, I have 
>kept this font in my files and still use it.  It isn't perfect, and 
>someone adept at using the shape designer could probably come up 
>with better looking things, but the fall-off and upward scoop are 
>OK.  I often need them in my music, and the jazz font simply looks 
>like bad hand copying to my eye (the quarter rest is the worst 
>offender), so I continue to use these simple curved shapes.  Is 
>there a way to make them available to others who might find them 
>useful?
>
>Chuck


Actually, that's already a help. I'll see if I can find Newport, and 
check out the characters for these falls. And I agree about certain 
Jazz Font characters, that they look too sloppy. I'm still looking 
for a chord font I like.
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