Re: Problems with Sebastian-FigBass
Posted: 04 Dec 2016, 16:24
Technically, you can put an augmentation mark on any number, though their usage may be rare, and there are variants on the augmentation mark style.
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Ben (?), I'm glad you like the font!benwiggy wrote:Well, I've created a "clean" version of the font, fixing all the errors that Fontforge flagged. I didn't make any kerning alterations, and I'll adjust my existing documents. For reasons that need not bore you, it's not that much of a job to adjust the chord suffixes.
Thanks for the advice. There aren't many fonts out there with all the figured bass symbols, and I really like this one.
That's it. I never used the chords function in Finale, the font was designed for use within Finale's text expressions.benwiggy wrote:It has only recently occurred to me (Doh!) that the reason for the zero-width was so that different glyphs could be typed together and appear at the same horizontal position. Hence the font having the same numerals in different heights.
If I remember correctly, for most of these ligatures it was just me playing around with numerals and lines. I won't pretend I'm an expert for figured bass notation, but as far as I know, at least the 6+ ligature is fairly common too. I wonder – why has it not been included in SMuFL?Knut wrote:I took a look at the Sebastian figured bass font. It contains a number of ligated +_numeral and numeral_+ glyphs which is not found in the current version of SMuFL. Do you know if these can be found in the literature, or are they of the font designer's own creation?
Here's the figured bass symbols currently featured in SMuFL:
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tab ... -bass.html
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/tab ... ement.html
As you can see, the only ligatures featured are 2+, 4+, 5+ and +7.
Yes, I love it! All the other Fig Bass fonts I've seen look like Times, rather than looking like an 18th-century face.Florian wrote:Ben (?), I'm glad you like the font!
Would you consider uploading your clean version to the GitHub rep? Or else, could you send it to me so I can do that?
Sibelius expects to find certain glyphs in certain slots of the font file, so it's just a matter of moving the glyphs from their slots to those slots Sibelius wants.Florian wrote:I just uploaded the revised version to the Github page. (https://github.com/fkretlow/sebastian) Thank you!
I created a whole set of numerals in different sizes while working on the fonts. They were all derived from the symbols for time signatures. As for the ligatures, I just knew you could combine any number with an augmentation mark, as you mentioned earlier in this thread, and of course I had a couple of scores to look at for inspiration. And a lot of time..
Of course you're welcome to make a Sibelius-friendly version. Just as a matter of interest, as I've never used Sibelius: what would you change in order to make it Sibelius-friendly? And why would the revised font be less suited to Sibelius?