Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-19 Thread SN jef chippewa
hi ryan, compared to the lozenge used for harmonics in Maestro, the one in neueweise Notes: - has higher top/bottom points - has thicker sidebars - has better curves on the outer form - has a width that is identical to quarter note (Maestro lozenge is 6% smaller than its quarter notehead) - is

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-18 Thread Ryan
How does the size of your lozenge (diamond note head) compare with Maestro? (Found in the first column of the first row under Notes: http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts/neueweise_charactercharts.pdf) Thanks! On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:36 AM, SN jef chippewa < shirl...@newmusicnotation.com> wrote: >

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-18 Thread David Woodard
Thanks so much:) Dave On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Bruce Kau wrote: > You might also find this website helpful as well. > > http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/ipa/#main > > You click on the characters in the chart, and it puts them into a text > box that you can then cut and paste

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-18 Thread SN jef chippewa
hi david, as bruce said, finale is a crap word processor. however, it is indeed possible to type directly using IPA fonts into the lyrics window or to use "type into score" in the lyrics tool. but some fonts (SIL, for example) are mapped such that many common characters require knowledge o

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread Bruce Kau
You might also find this website helpful as well. http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/ipa/#main You click on the characters in the chart, and it puts them into a text box that you can then cut and paste into your lyrics box. On 1/17/2015 6:06 PM, David Woodard wrote: > I will yet again

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread David Woodard
I have used the type into WP method - copy & paste into Finale Lyrics box for song-hymn lyrics, but in this is for vocal warm-ups are not so, shall we say, poetic. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Bruce Kau wrote: > One other thought: Sometimes what is easier is to type your text into a > word

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread David Woodard
I will yet again explore MS Word's additional Character sets On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:06 PM, David Woodard wrote: > I have used the type into WP method - copy & paste into Finale Lyrics box > for song-hymn lyrics, but in this is for vocal warm-ups are not so, shall > we say, poetic. > > On Sat

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread David Woodard
Thanks, I will check out these links, I need to use the IPA Syllables instead of alpha-letters and I forgot to mention I am using Windows version of Finale 2012. In all the explanations I have seen, it seemed one almost needed programming skills to get the IPA syllables in Finale to be entered as

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread Bruce Kau
One other thought: Sometimes what is easier is to type your text into a word processor such as MS Word, and then copy the text into Finale. Finale has pretty awful text processing, and you can take advantage of some of the features that various text processors have for inserting special charact

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread Bruce Kau
David, I assume you have a IPA font already, such as the ones at SIL.ORG, e.g., http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium_download I think Windows fonts have the SIL codepoint (just checked; Arial does have unicode IPA). I'm not sure about Mac, but I don't know why they

Re: [Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-17 Thread David Woodard
I am looking for a simple way to use IPA-International Phonetic Alphabet symbols-letters as lyrics for vocal warm-ups with Finale 2012. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:36 AM, SN jef chippewa < shirl...@newmusicnotation.com> wrote: > > hi everyone! some of you are familiar with my > work and know that

[Finale] [RELEASE] neueweise - fonts for new music / traditional notation

2015-01-13 Thread SN jef chippewa
hi everyone! some of you are familiar with my work and know that i have used custom fonts for some time. i have just given them an overhaul -- more elegant, sexy, functional -- and am making them available publicly for the first time. http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html neueweise fonts