Actually I'm referring to a different feature. Tracking is the tightness between characters, as you've described. I'm referring to reshaping each letter, so for instance letter o would become an oval rather than a circle. In Score, you set the point size and it creates the width and height to the same size by default, but you also can specifiy different sizes for height and width of each letter, distorting the shape a little. In Word and PageMaker you define the percentage of character width compare to the default width.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Liudas Motekaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Dorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Finale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Some Considerations about fonts.... > Sure, it's called Tracking: the distance between characters in > one-onethousandths of the current point size. > > Liudas > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Dorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Finale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:11 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] Some Considerations about fonts.... > > > > Another solution that could be very useful is character-width spacing > > controls. This is available in Score which makes it easy to use an > > open-looking font like New Century Schoolbook for lyrics while condensing > > the characters' widths by any percentage, to help with spacing. Word > > (character spacing > scale) and PageMaker (set width) offer this, and > > perhaps it's do-able in Finale. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Finale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:22 AM > > Subject: [Finale] Some Considerations about fonts.... > > > > > > > Friends: > > > > > > 1) In search of "condensed" typefaces for use in lyrics, I have bee > > > collecting some of the inexpensive CD's containing Fonts available in > > > certain computer stores. There are a number of inexpensive Discs > > > available; if you purchase one of them, "1,111 Selected Fonts" from the > > > German firm, hemming GmBH, you get a bonus: the disc contains the > > > "Sonata Music font." I bought the disk at a local computer store for > > > the whopping price of $9.95 (US). I also note that this disc would be a > > > good source of "handwritten" typefaces that might provide the font > > > numbers Darcy is looking for. > > > > > > 2) If you use fonts from a third party source in a music file, make > > > certain that you make note of the fact in your log, or in the comment > > > block in the file. This informatino will be useful in the event you > > > decide to share the actual data file. > > > > > > ns > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Finale mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
