In a message dated 6/27/2010 10:00:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
finale-requ...@shsu.edu writes:
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:36:20 -0400
From: dhbailey <dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com>
Subject: Re: [Finale] Use of JazzSymbol in Finale
To: <finale@shsu.edu>
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Thank you very much for clarifying this for me -- I suspect
you will be selling a font to me in the near future! :-)
David H. Bailey
Thanks, David. And by all means, folks, please give us feedback on these
products, especially JazzSymbol, which really came out nicely due to the
intrinsic clarity and compactness of Arial Narrow--a wonderful base font for
chord symbols, that good suggestion having come from a Finale user. The great
thing about Unicode fonts is that they're infinitely extensible. So if
there are any sets of matching symbols you'd like to see in a future upgrade,
just let me know, and we'll add them.
It also would not hurt if users report to MakeMusic, even just on this
forum, the usefulness and inherent quality of our fonts, which combine
high-quality workmanship with strong design features enhancing usability. If
they
can coordinate their leap to Unicode (which surely must occur before too
long, since Sibelius already embraces Unicode) with our chord symbol fonts,
chord symbol entry in Finale will be a snap--and far superior to that in
Sibelius. Things such as customizable Traditional and Commercial Chord Symbol P
alettes based on our well-organized fonts to replace the arcane libraries
of chord suffixes and so on could eliminate several confusing, intricate,
and labor-intensive steps. Not to mention the thousands of pages of content
we have already produced in Finale for our traditional and commercial
print-digital music theory textbook, Understanding Tonal Music, that I'd like
to
keep in Finale--our intent there being to empower adopters of our textbook
to create their own matching custom instructional materials using Finale
and our fonts, making our textbook totally customizable and therefore quite
unique, while promoting Finale.
And yes, it would be possible for us to create a matching "handwritten"
jazz font (same mapping, different base font), if enough users want that. That
would make it possible for users globally to change between our chord
symbol fonts depending on what "look" they want--formal (serif); less formal
(sans serif); or informal ("handwritten").
Cheers, jrc
Dr. John R. Clevenger, Manager
The Virtual Conservatory
50 S. Patterson Ave., #203
Santa Barbara, CA 93111
Phone and fax: (805) 964-7988 (for fax, ignore answering machine)
Email: _jclev...@aol.com_ (mailto:jclev...@aol.com)
Web site: _www.virtualconservatory.com_
(http://www.virtualconservatory.com/)
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