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
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