Hi Darcy, Basically I agree about ruler-drawn lines in hand copied scores. I started thinking about this when I was trying to duplicate the look of some fake book pages from who knows where, and the ending brackets were freehand. The bar lines were about the only thing on the page done with a ruler on the pages I was looking at. These lead sheets would seem to be a less than typical examples of hand copied jazz charts. I have incresed the thickness of my barlines, as you suggest, but I didn't think of changing the repeat brackets. I'm not near Finale at the moment, but I'm pretty sure that changing the thickness would give me what I'm looking for.
Thanks for the tip. Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darcy James Argue Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] First and Second Ending brackets in Jazz font Hi Ron, The repeat bracket isn't a font character. It's just made up of lines. When you're using JazzFont, you will want to increase the thickness of a lot of Finale's lines (like the repeat brackets, but also tuplet brackets, hairpins, etc.) so that it looks more like manuscript. My repeat brackets are set to a thickness of 1.5 points. You can set this in the Repeat section of Document Options. Also, you probably wouldn't like it if the repeat brackets were drawn some other way, using a ragged font character or whatnot. That would look terrible. After all, any good hand copyist uses a ruler to make ending repeat brackets and hairpins, etc.. They don't just draw them freehand. - Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 25 Mar 2004, at 10:26 AM, Olexy, Ronald T. wrote: > I posted this question to the Finale Forum first, and I don't know how > much overlap > that has with this list, so I apologize if you have seen it already.... > > I just started using the Jazz Font in Finale 2004 for Windows, and > when I inserted > graphic first and second endings on a fake book style lead sheet, the > repeat sign > on the staff was in Jazz Font, as were the ending numbers. But the > bracket was > (to my eyes) not in Jazz font and looked out of place on the page. > > It seems strange to me that the repeat sign is partially in Jazz font > and partially > in some other traditional font. > > Is there an ending bracket somewhere that looks hand-copied and is > adjustable > for length and height, so that it could be positioned above any chord > symbols? > > The Jazz font doesn't seem to have any straight vertical character > that I can see. > > Am I missing something, somewhere? Can the bracket be edited in any > way? > > And on the same topic, sort of, is the GoldenAge font still around? > > Thanks, > > Ron Olexy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
