choral experts: Longa or Maxima?

[User_4729]

Hi @Chris_Davey,

apparently, you also want to substitute the default Longa notehead with the Breve notehead and have posted this solution:

@Chris_Davey

I use the built-in Large Noteheads so have scaled the notehead up to 120 in both the X and Y directions as part of the edit.

I think an easier way would be not to scale the normal-size notehead up to 120 %, but to use the original larger noteheads. They are to be found in the optional glyphs range of the SMuFL specification:

U+F4BA: noteheadDoubleWholeOversized
U+F4BB: noteheadDoubleWholeSquareOversized
U+F4BC: noteheadWholeOversized
U+F4BD: noteheadHalfOversized
U+F4BE: noteheadBlackOversized

See this topic on the Musescore website which I have found on the Dorico forum in this post.

These larger (“oversized”) noteheads are listed as “Recommended stylistic alternates” in the SMuFL specification (see https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/noteheads.html#recommended-stylistic-alternates. However, I have not found a place on the SMuFL github where their above-mentioned Unicode position is specified.