Changes to Walker 7-shape

Dorico
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I’m trying to use the Walker 7-shape to match this (The Christian Harmony, 1867, William Walker), which is an authoritative source for his 7-shape system as far as I know:

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But the shapes aren’t quite right. Do is upside-down.

Also, the half-moon Re is reversed; it should open to the right.

Lastly, the stem on Do attaches at the center of the notehead, not the edge. No idea why. I can’t change the attachment points in the notehead set editor, because it messes up dyads.

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Ope, Ti is reversed as well. Three out of the seven shapes are wrong.

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I can’t remember now what source I used for the Walker shapes when working on the original Bravura design, but the bibliography on the SMuFL web site should say. I’ll make a note to research this again at some point. For now you’ll need to create new glyphs in a custom font, I guess. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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