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.
The term I know for this effect is "scaling" (as in "font scaling") and refers to the aspect ratio. This is customarily presented in page layout applications just as you describe. The default ratio for a glyph (always 1:1) does not necessarily imply that the character it represents has the same width and height (as with capital letter "I" in proportional fonts) -- only that when the ratio is 1:1, the character should be rendered according to what the designer considers "normal". I don't know Score, so can't comment as to the usage there.
But this two-dimensional type of font scaling doesn't really do the conceivable set of manipulations justice. Much better IMO, was Adobe's Multiple Master notion of having several axes to vary where one could for instance alter the 'z' axis and tilt the letters forwards or backwards. Very nice subtle effects (especially for titles) and practically guarantees your score a unique style that no one can quite duplicate.
I purchased Tekton MM quite a few years ago and used a "fat" variant I created for chords. Tekton's actually an architectural font and isn't really the most desirable launching point for chord fonts but because it's most outstanding feature is legibility, the result was always passable.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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