Just to answer the questions quickly (just played a funeral and have to finish Sunday’s worship aid):
- These scores are from a few years ago and I’ve advanced in engraving prowess considerably since that time (I hope anyway!). I wouldn’t necessarily count them as representative of my work these days. I’m still glad you like them.
- The left aligned “truth” at the end was just to keep it away from the connected repeat. I suppose it would look better with everything centered in that bar.
- the font is Iowan Old Style and I loooooove it. It strikes this perfect balance between a classic look and yet it is not sterile like Times New Roman. Less sharp as well. There are very subtle curves in it which you can only see when really zoomed in. I also like that it comes with multiple font weights, so I can mark certain things in “black” which is very bold and gives a different look to draw attention but still maintains font unity. It also blends very nicely (due to those subtle curves) with my standard title font Yana.
- I’ve never seen the original tallis; I’m glad to. I was imitating a different edition at the time; the first “e’vn” is clearly a mistake as it’s different relative to the others; interesting to see it wasn’t contracted in the original, even though it is in many editions. I don’t remember now why I did what I did… there was a reason, but as I said that was at least two years ago.
- Dan, I completely agree about the alignment; I nudge eveything back a bit these days. I think it’s the lack of optical kerning or something… or just a zealous default; I don’t know, but either way, I completely agree.
- Ben, I agree about the connected barline on the right hand side. As my disclaimer above stated: I was just showing it to mark for demonstration purposes. I typically only do that on final barlines, not standard barlines. Occasionally doubles, but it is context dependent.
I’m going to need to go back and fix the tallis and re-print it next time the choir sings it. It will drive me nuts knowing those mistakes are there now. lol.