Very much so.
OT: I hope you’ll forgive this intrusion into the actual work happening here for a brief “meta”-moment of appreciation.
While the subject of this thread happens to have no intersection whatsoever with my own work, I have nonetheless followed it closely simply out of sheer admiration for the generosity, intellectual curiosity, and positive focus of expertise it displays.
It’s not alone here in being so, but this thread sure is a model of great forum interaction and function. Hats off to @dan_kreider for his “fontastic” work and to everyone contributing. A pleasure to witness!
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Amen. Alleluia.
I used to use it for certain things a while ago. They are nice shapes and sizes.
Will this work with Dorico Elements or does one need the Pro version?
It will not work with Elements, unfortunately. There are some Pro-only functions required.
I might need to engrave a few pieces for someone. I used to know a bit about neumes, but it’s long forgotten and cannot find my reference book. Anyone have some URLs, PDFs (or books) to help me remember and research?
@dan_kreider absolutely gorgeous, will be a pleasure to use.
Thank you all for the hugely encouraging response. The goal is for MusChant to be able to do something like this:
…which is absolutely achievable (hooray!), but will require re-working the way the font is coded. The brute-force methods I’ve been using won’t be practical at this scale.
So I was getting close to releasing version 1.0, but it’s going to be a few more weeks now. I’ll try to keep thread bumps here to a minimum, although the feedback I’ve gotten has been incredibly valuable. Coming soon…
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I made a hymnal for Ely Cathedral using the St Meinrad fonts back in the late 1990s when I was a lay clerk there. As far as I know they’re still using that hymnal every day for the office hymn in evensong!
Dan, my hat is off to you for even attempting this project, and I’m really impressed at what you are achieving.
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Getting close to a 1.0 release.
Don’t worry about the mysterious code… easily explained! “s” is a spacer, and the numbers are pitch contours.
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Really remarkable work, Dan.
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You have a wonderful sharing passion for the community with these efforts @dan_kreider - looks great.!
Printing these out using red staff lines, would of course be the ‘cherry-on-the-top’ for some (and fun.!)… 
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Oof. The red staff lines will have to come from Dorico, I believe.
Of course… understood… paging @dspreadbury …! Any thoughts you could share.?
Hi @judddanby - and you’re quoting me in to your post above, to show me…?
He added a cherry 
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Ok… got it.!! Am being a little slow, sorry @judddanby 
Nothing genuinely helpful intended, I’m afraid, just the “cherry on the top” of this excellent thread.
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For the time being (while Daniel’s frantically adding this option to the next release ), you could change the colour of the staves in a PDF editor like Acrobat or Affinity. Also add some parchment texture to the paper background (I remember vaguely there was a notation app that did such things…).
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