Omg, is the slash notation new? I can now type out an entire (admittedly very simple) lead sheet in MusGlyphs in MS Word!
Wow!
Thanks,
Benji
Edit: Although it might be easier and faster to use Doricoā¦
Edit 2: Please, Dan, next time youāre looking at MusGlyphs, take care of that half note stem for meā¦
Brilliant, Dan - really useful and both the accompanying material and the video guide were excellent. Duly bought.
Iāve just gone through the same routine you did in the video, using Mac Pages (11.0). Everything worked as it should without the need for changing ligature settings. The only change I had to make was to turn off Capitalising words automatically in Pages / Preferences.
This is the kind of tool that makes me think: how could I possibly live without it before? Thanks for your efforts, Dan! I guess at the beginning the project mainly had the time signatures in focus, but then grew fast with all kinds of additions. But now I agree with high5th: keep it the way it is. Small is beautiful!
Which of course is nonsense, but it did make me think there are a lot more possible applications for a version that includes full Roman character support.
So I am going to make a Roman version, which Iāll keep totally separate from the original versionā¦ call it something like MusGlyphs Roman. I need to think about whether to keep everything, or strip it down like you suggested.
Iām also going to make a sans version at some point here, probably using Gothic A1, unless someone else has another recommendation for a better sans font thatās published under OFL.
Just checked MusGlyphs Roman as Tempo marking (after replacing the corresponding font).
Absolutely terrific!
Alignments with others tempo markings preserved and no more limitations.
Wow. A bold version would be a godsend, too.
Thanks very much, Danāthis is really very useful. Iāve purchased and shall spread the word.
For me, the combinations with hyphens donāt work (e.g. microtonal accidentals with arrows, turn-n, etc). Iām using v1.45 on Word 365 on a MacBook Pro. Iāve tried using British and US keyboards.
For the future, if you have time, Iād very much appreciate a few extra tuplet options (5s and 7s would be super-handy, then youāll have covered almost all the usual metric modulations).
Definitely 1.45! Freshly downloaded from Notation Central. nd etc donāt work. So thereās something odd here, but itās probably some quirk of Mac or Microsoft trying to be helpful and overriding something. For example, 3/4 (the time signature) appears correctly, then turns into the āthree-quartersā fraction when thereās a space afterwards. Iāll find a way of turning that off!
Totally agreed and FWIW Iām, extremely grateful to Florian for Metrico - a really useful and important addition to Dorico over the past few years. But now that MusGlyphs has arrived, itās moved things on and I personally would prefer to do this kind of thing with one font as opposed to mixing things up with two.
Well, if Florian doesnāt object, Iām happy to add the needed modulations to MusGlyphs. Maybe someone could list the most common ones?
I doubt very much that Iāll be able to create all iterationsā¦ and in due time, this native functionality will probably come to Dorico. But in the meantime, I can add a few as needed.
Congratulations on this fine realization. I purchased and installed your font. Inserting musical symbols into text has always been a problem for the changes to line spacing. I have always used Dominique Montelās Rousseau font, which exhibits this problem. From the few tests I have run with yours, it appears that one has to experiment until the font size of the group of symbols is small enough to prevent line spacing from being modified.
Furthermore, unless I am wrong, one needs to select each group of symbols, set a font and size, and set all the correct kerning parameters under Font | Advanced for everything to appear as expected. This set of steps is obviously a candidate for a macro.
What is the procedure to download what appear to be frequent updates? Download again for free?
Finally, I would like to point out that the cheat sheet is version 1.45 in the downloaded package, and 1.46 on a Dropbox link in your post of 7 April that was valid a couple of hours ago but has now ceased to be. Is there a permalink to the latest version?
Hi, and thanks. Hmmā¦ MusGlyphs is intended to correct this exact problem, so the user doesnāt have to resize and align. I find any of the typical fonts I use work nicely with MusGlyphs by default. But youāre right that line spacing can be an issue. Some of the glyphs are quite tall, so the values for WinAscent and WinDescent (basically, how ātallā the font metrics are) are set to large values. I am looking into ways to adjust this automatically, but as you can see on the MusGlyphs product page, it should be possible to make the font play nicely with text.
Also, at least on Word I know itās easy to assign a key command to a particular font, so you can easily switch back and forth.
Regarding kerning: at least in Word, I would recommend simply turning it on and leaving it.
Updates: all āofficialā updates will be pushed out through Notation Central, and youāll get an email with a link. Thatās the best way, rather than relying on the Dropbox link, which may disappear at any time, or may link to a beta version that has some issues! The official version is still 1.45. The beta, 1.46, has a few changes that may throw you off a bit, which will be documented in the version history (theyāre quite minor).