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I have decided to do several "historic" music fonts for use with Finale,
both in True Type and Type 1 versions, the use of which will allow
Finale to be used to very closely approximate the appearance not only of
historic handset music typefaces, but certain punch engraved scores as
well. To that end, I have begun examining fonts, and creating new ones
as preliminary practice. For examining and eventually creating type 1
fonts, I am currently using "Manutius (v. 2.0)", of Dr. Gebert.
When I examined the postscript versions of three files in the "Engraver
Font Set", I found curious results. While I was able to examine all of
the constituent glyphs in the Hevetica version of the Engraver Text
("engrth_") font, the charcter "m" [NB: lower case only] in both the
Times and New Century Schoolbook versions of the Engraver Text font
("engrtt_", and "engrtn") caused Manutius to end abnormally giving the
same error code in each case. [Which I have not yet tried to decipher;
Manutius seems to be available only with a UI in German, and while I
used to read it pretty well, computer nomenclature in rare in the works
of Goethe, Schiller, Grass, and Brecht]
Perhaps some of you who have postscript printers would be so kind as to
check out the three engraver text fonts, and see whether they all
reproduce correctly in scores and other texts on postscript printers,
before I trouble MakeMusic support, and since the support fora for
Manutius seem to all be in German, before I embarrass myself trying to
ask technical questions there.
ns
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