This is great news! triple chapeau, jef!
I sure would like to have the new JazzCord! Barbara Darcy James Argue schreef: > > Hey everyone, > > As you may remember, a while back I made an online plea for someone with > Fontographer to make some long-needed improvements to the default JazzCord > font -- specifically, to isolate some characters used in combination with > other characters in the suffix glyphs and make them available to the user > who wants to build custom symbols. Well, Jeff Chippewa stepped up to the > plate, and after a few revisions and some testing on my part I'm happy to > say that Jef's modified JazzCord is *exactly* what I want. I asked Jef > whether he would mind my publicizing this on-list, since I'm sure some of > you would also be interested in the modified font. He had no objections, so > here goes -- if you want a copy of this font (TT and PS versions), I will be > happy to send them along (unless Jef wants to control the distribution > himself). With Jef's blessing, I would also like to send a copy to Coda in > the hopes that they will replace the default JazzCord with this new, vastly > improved version. > > Here are the changes in Jef's version: > > € NO existing characters have been moved or modified. It is perfectly safe > to replace your old JazzCord font with this one. After installing the > modified font, all your existing chord symbols -- both the defaults and any > custom suffixes -- will remain exactly the same. The new characters have > all been mapped to previously empty slots. > > € JazzCord glyphs use three different types of parentheses -- one set for > symbols such as "(omit 3)" or "(omit 5)", another for single numerical > alterations such as "(b9)" and "(#5)", and a third set for stacked > alterations. By default, only the first pair are available (mapped to > "shift-9" and "shift-0"). Jef's version makes the other two pairs > user-accessible: > > - The short narrow parentheses (used for a single alteration) have been > mapped to "," and ".". > > - The tall narrow parentheses (used for two stacked alterations) have been > mapped to "shift-[" and "shift-]". > > € JazzCord glyphs use two different designs for sharps and three different > designs for flats, depending on what is being sharped or flatted. By > default, only the accidentals used to modify the chord *root* (e.g., the > flat in "Bb7" or the sharp in "F#7") are available. Jef's version adds the > other accidentals, which are shorter, fatter, and straighter than the > defaults: > > - The flat symbol used to modify single alterations [e.g., the *second* flat > in "Bb7(b9)"] is mapped to "shift-4". This symbol is also used as the top > flat in a pair of stacked alterations. > > - The "stubby" flat symbol used to modify the bottom alteration in a stack > is mapped to "shift-5" > > - The sharp symbol used to modify alterations [e.g., the *second* sharp in > "F#7(#5)" is mapped to "shift-7". This symbol is used for all alterations > requiring a sharp, including the bottom one in a stack. > > These additions to the font allow you to create any custom suffix you > choose, and careful positioning in the Chord Suffix Editor dialog will allow > you -- for the first time -- to match the characters and positioning of the > default suffixes exactly. > > Three cheers for Jef! > > - Darcy > > ------ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Boston, MA > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
