Wow. Sounds almost like a font program. Liudas
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dorff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Some Considerations about fonts.... > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
