EugeneStrong doesn’t show up for me in Dorico->Music Fonts. I see the json file is named Eugene only.
Jesper
Thank you for pointing this out!
Turns out I made a simple error while creating the macOS installer for this version, which copied the wrong metadata file inside the EugeneStrong folder.
It should now be fixed!
Works now, but I had to delete the old eugene.json file first.
Jesper
Greetings!
Lately I’ve finished a couple of full sample scores showcasing Eugene in different music styles, staff sizes and instrumentations.
Attached is a pdf with five score examples set with Eugene, including solo piano pieces and an excerpt from a Haydn string quartet:
EugeneSampleScores.pdf (1.2 MB)
Lovely! I’m curious: the brace seems to fall back to bravura when the span is larger than the default Eugene brace. Any plans to add glyphs for Large Brace, Larger Brace, Flat Brace, or Small Brace?
Good point, had totally forgotten the brace!
On an early phase of the projext I had added the alternative brace glyphs, but got stuck at creating the stylistic alternative tags and moved on. Now that I’m pretty sure I know how to make it work (figured out all ligature and salt related stuff from Bravura’s otf files), I can include that feature in the next version.
V 1.25 - Alternative brace glyphs, new pedal mark
So, now I got the brace thing in order. Actually ended up redrawing the default brace, after Suite Bergamasque. At least on my system, Dorico won’t fall back to Bravura brace anymore in different sizes.
I also found a good Fromont specimen of the most phallic of all music symbols: the keyboard pedal mark. I also detached the P, e and d from that sign just to fill out those glyph slots.
V. 1.25 has total number of 574 glyphs and it can be downloaded from the website: Eugene — Free SMuFL Music Font
Bravo!
Wow, I knew that my wiggle glyphs were incomplete, but that looks wildly off. Are those screenshots from Fontlab or Dorico? I don’t seem to be able to get them that messy on my system with Dorico, at least the normal speed wiggles connect smoothly here and don’t have any gaps like the top screenshot there.
But I’ll take a look and try to correct the anchor points for starters (and work more on the glyphs themself of course). And as you can see, the fastest wiggles fall back to Bravura at this point. But it worries me that when I connect my own wiggles here in Glyphs, Dorico or Musescore, they certainly won’t look like on your screenshots.
The screenshots are coming from Dorico.
Okay, now I worked on this a bit and might have improved it at least with the wiggletrill, wiggleArpeggiato and wiggleGlissando lines.
I tried various different combinations inside Dorico to see how things would go, the line between the staves showcases even some unlikely wiggle combinations. So here’s Eugene v. 1.251 (not yet released, will propably improve this slightly still and upload later).
When comparing different SMuFL fonts, it becomes obvious that including all different wiggle speed variations is not the highest priority. I certainly wouldn’t consider this feature very important, hadn’t even considered the concept of varying wiggle lines before working on this font project. But it’s certainly fun that SMuFL has this option!
Same project with Leland:
or Mezza Std (v. 1.001) (@NorFont.com, it may be that my installation or Dorico settings are somehow corrupted, do let me know if this is the case and the wiggles combine correctly on your system, otherwise consider this as a bug report)
Yes, it might be a bug, but I fixed that years ago. I’ll send you the fix.
Very good point! The previous brace glyph was from a later edition from Fromont, likely even a different engraving shop. I now modified all the brace variants to be more consistent in style.
V 1.251 now on github
- Corrected trill issues pointed out by Nordine
- Modified brace glyphs
- New bracket top and bottom glyphs
EDIT: Installers are now also available and I added the packages on the website