Bravura seems like a nice font, but that is hardly a breakthrough. The SMuFL idea seems like something the industry should get behind, as an annex to MusicXML -- making MusicXML files that much more transportable. Again, a nice development, but not really a huge breakthrough.
At this stage, I'd rather see MM working on fixing the many bugs currently in the product and making the Garritan instruments integrate more seamlessly. I'm not against improved fonts. Legibility of music is very important. In the modern era of music notation programs, the readability of music is going DOWN, not up. But that is not mainly because of the fonts. It is mostly layout stuff. Finale has improved a lot in this regard in recent releases, but there is still plenty more that can be done. For example, hairpins and their associated dynamics markings never live up unless you do careful editing. That could probably be made more automatic. And there are still many collisions that could be avoided with improved algorithms. On 5/24/2013 3:55 AM, Eric Fiedler wrote: > For those in our community who might have missed this, the following link > points to some interesting developments at Steinberg which have just been > made public "over here": > http://blog.steinberg.net/2013/05/introducing-bravura-music-font/ > And again, I have to ask: "MM, are you listening?" > Cheers! > Eric > ***************************************** > Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) > www.habsburgerverlag.de > webmas...@habsburgerverlag.de > ***************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
