On 27 Oct 2005, at 1:46 PM, greghamilton wrote:
While I think the Jazz Font settings look very poor by default, I also think it's very possible to get good results with the font if you spend some time setting up your own template. There are examples on my music prep website, and, not to climb on a high horse or anything, but I don't think they look like "very amateur hand copying." (They would look even better if Robert's Patterson Beams supported my ideal beam thickness of 15 EVPUs.) I would also have to agree with those who feel that the choice of font is relatively unimportant compared to the details of size, layout, spacing, phrasing, line weights, placement, etc, that separate a well-copied chart from a poorly-copied chart. In fact, the main reason I used the Jazz Font in the first place was not the music characters, but the text enclosures, which are absolutely key in sight-reading situations. This is why I hesitated long and hard before switching to Maestro for my own work. (Which is still an experiment -- I may still switch back to JazzFont, especially if Bill comes out with a nice manuscript-style chord font.) There is still not really any equivalent to the Jazz Text enclosures in any non-manuscript font. There is Bill Duncan's Enclosure font, which is very nice, but -- unlike Jazz Text -- lacks the ability to include a visual cue as to whether it has been assigned above the staff or below. Cheers, |
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