Why are the Bold and Bold Italic font styles different sizes from Regular and Italic when these glyphs are added in the Playing Techniques editing window?
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I would guess because Dorico is, behind the scenes, choosing a different font style in each case.
Apropos of nothing, it’s kind of weird that for a non-SMuFL text font, you select “SMuFL” to see the Unicode ranges, rather than Unicode.
I’m trying to think what labelling might be more instructive. “Ranges” and “Values”???
@dspreadbury Thank you, but I don’t understand.
I am choosing a different font style for the same character in the same font, yet Dorico is bringing in each of these glyphs at a different point size and reporting that each of them is scaled to 100%. This creates difficulties when I combine glyphs and want to compare the way it looks in italics vs. bold italics etc.
And this seems to only happen with certain fonts. In the following example, only Academico and Times New Roman are doing this. American Typewriter and Helvetica are working as expected. Perhaps there is something going on related to the nature of font styles? I know little about that, but this makes no sense to me.
Could it be that if the font is defined in a Font Style, it is used at that size?
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I think I understand that, @benwiggy and it sounds possible, but are font styles commonly defined in different point sizes? And if so, one can only select these styles in one way in the Playing Techniques editor. The individual font styles are not listed separately in the list of fonts. One can only choose the styles from the Style menu in the PT editor. Nor can one pick different point sizes.
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That doesn’t seem like a logical way for this to work at all, but I think you might be on to something. When I do John’s parenthesis experiment with fonts I never use in Dorico they seem to all be the same size. When I do it with fonts I actually use and have saved as default, the sizing is all over the place.
For example, I’ve never used Times New Roman in Dorico ever, and I get this result with it:
But with my usual text font I get this:
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Wow, super-sleuthing @FredGUnn! That is borne out by my experience. I never use American Typewriter or Helvetica in Dorico, but do have (blush) Times New Roman saved in Dorico.
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If I do this test by adding Academico glyphs I get this:
If I create 4 new Font Styles like this …
and then add it with text (instead of Glyphs) using the different Font Styles I get this:
Interesting that process gives a different result. I’m still not sure where exactly Dorico is pulling the sizing from in the Glyphs example though.
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@FredGUnn Very interesting. I was thinking about somehow creating duplicates on my computer of the fonts that I have saved in Dorico, giving them different names, and seeing if choosing those brings in the styles at the same size.
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