What fonts do you use for ornaments and fingerings, etc?

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What fonts do you use for ornaments and fingerings, etc?

2003-03-16 03:14 pm

I'm going to try again. I asked a similar question last week, but it got caught up in side-issues, not that that's a bad thing, necessarily. But I'd still like to know. (Fascinating side issues can of course be explored in fascinating new threads.)

I have a file I'd like to put up on the Scriptorium, a guitar arrangement of a Couperin piece, and I
realise the ornaments are in a font no one else will have, since I made it myself.

It makes sense to use fonts most people have. Boxmarks2 could and perhaps someday will have even more useful symbols, but it's the only non-standard font I think it's reasonable to suppose most people using Noteworthy will have.

Other ones I like are NWC Extra Ornaments and Bach, both of which have, for instance, the inverted mordent that Boxmarks currently lacks. My own creation, Lydian, has most of what I want, but I don't think it's the magic answer for everyone.

So I'm going through some files - the ones I might want to share - and trying to stick to NWC, Boxmarks2, and Windows fonts like Symbol or Wingdings, in various sizes.

What fonts do most of you use for ornaments?

We (well, some of us) do need a standard second or expanded NWC font, or at least an expanded Boxmarks that includes more characters.

But for the moment, what are people using?

Re: What fonts do you use for ornaments and fingerings, etc?

Reply #1 – 2003-03-16 04:08 pm

Hi

I'm a classical guitarist and composer.
Experience told me to write all ornaments with grace notes.
This way I try to avoid misunderstanding caused by incorrect interpretation of the symbols for ornamentation.

Besides, writing ornaments by hand will give you a good mean to perform them as you wish in the playback.

All the best

Paulo Galvao

Re: What fonts do you use for ornaments and fingerings, etc?

Reply #2 – 2003-03-16 08:38 pm

Here is what I have in my arsenal:

Bach
Boxmarks
Boxmarks 2
Crescendo
Fughetta
Music
Musisync
Noterow
Notes normal
NWCI ornaments v.3
NW Slur
Petrucci
Toccata

They all have something I use or combinations that need to be together. I wish there were one font that fit everything I do, but it would probably be ideosyncratic.

Note that there are copyright issues with the use of some of these fonts.

Carl Bangs

Re: What fonts do you use for ornaments and fingerings, etc?

Reply #3 – 2003-03-19 07:05 pm

I've used most of those fonts at one time or another. The problem comes when I want to share a file, and have to keep track of which fonts I've used. Some of the people I play with regularly have NWC, and I send them arrangements and parts by email, which can save rehearsal time. For these arrangements, I stick to Boxmarks, the NWC fonts, and my own Lydian, (which they all have). Using those and the native Windows fonts like Symbol in various sizes you can do most of it. It looks better if you have a couple of other music fonts as well, though.

I'm trying to get a general survey of font use so I'd know what it was reasonable to use in a few files I'd like to put up on the Scriptorium. Thanks for your replies so far.