FreeSerif font included with MuseScore is missing italic
At first, I thought FreeSerif just had a rotten italic—it looked exactly the same as the regular type, just stretched diagonally. Luckily, I was interested enough to look the font up online, and found that it does have a perfectly good italic variant. But the version included with MuseScore 2.0 only has FreeSerif and FreeSerifBold!
This is all the worse because musical terms are very likely to be in italic. I've been changing all my styles to use Times New Roman because of this issue. But now I figured it out. Can we make sure to have the full font included with the next release of MuseScore?
(Incidentally, FreeSans is left even worse off, with only the one regular typeface. But I feel that's a lot less likely to be an issue.)
A final note: this is using the Mac version of MuseScore 2. Maybe the fonts are all there in the packages for other operating systems?
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I think this probably deserves major status as a huge number of musical instructions are written in italic.
In the meantime, should we document this somewhere? Maybe http://musescore.org/en/node/39571?
FWIW, no, the italic version of FreeSerif is not included in the distribution on other systems either. It is preinstalled on some systems, though, so not everyone will see an issue. In case you hadn't figured this out, you can simply install the font yourself and things will look right away.
But yes, I too agree we should include this. Oddly, we do include a Bold variant, even though that is perhaps more easily "faked".
Yes, I found the font on the Internet, which is how I was able to confirm that the italic variant does exist. As I said—"now I figured it out." And I noticed that MuseScore had the bold version—"FreeSerif and FreeSerifBold".
First this, and then #53616: Vestigial handbook PDF left in MuseScore 2.0. I wonder if there's anything else odd about the files included with 2.0?
It is documented now: http://musescore.org/en/node/39571#text. To be removed when this is fixed in the next release.
Fixed in 8cc3ae4411
Fixed the manual too.
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.