New font/fonts
Hey
First i must say that i love Musescore. But I do find the 1 music font quite boring. To me it appears too perfect really. I would prefer something more scribbley looking, or something between computer perfection and handwritten imperfection. I have attached a little pic taken from Musescore installation graphic which shows an extremee case of what i am after.
This squiggley may not be the answer but i just find when i compare a printout from Musescore with the look of a purchased music books look it seems musescore can look somewhat boring and simplistic in it's look.
Thanks heaps for all the hard work. This is just me being picky but if new music fonts were introduced i would use the program a lot more as it would appear much more appealing to me.
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http://musescore.org/en/search/apachesolr_search/jazz%20font
In reply to Take a look. by xavierjazz
Thanks Xavierjazz
A jazz notation font would be a really nice addition. Various notation font types would be great. Something that resembles one the old classical composers scribbling down their music really appeals to me.
In reply to Thanks XavierjazzA jazz by cords_
notation is available. Check the links.
In reply to Jazz by xavierjazz
I followed the link that you posted, and it went to a forum search for "jazz font". Most of the discussion there was about a Jazz text font for chords, but I would love to see a Jazz-style, handwritten looking font for notes, rests, etc. The best I could find looking around in the forum posts was that external notation fonts aren't supported. I downloaded the latest nightly (4703 right now), and there is indeed two fonts included, but they both look like two different versions of professional fonts, and neither gave the handwritten look.
You said "Jazz notation is available. Check the links." I didn't see anything when I checked them. Would it be possible to elaborate a little? Am I missing something?
In reply to Jazz Font for Notation? by newsome
Sorry, I didn't check the links, just made an assumption.
This should help: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/chord-name
Regards,
In reply to Hi. by xavierjazz
Thanks for the link to the Jazz font. I'd like to update all of my existing scores to use that font. Short of re-keying the chord information, does anyone know how to do a global update to the existing chord names?
In reply to Global Updates by buckyschwartz@…
Chords are the easy part, fortunately. A bit tougher for other text elements.
All you need to do to update the fonts used for chords is change it in Style->Edit Text Style->Chordname and then reload the score.
However, if you are trying to switch to the MuseJazz font, you will probably also want to change the General Style for chordnames also (this controls the overall appearance of chords - how major and minor are abbreviated, whether alterations are superscripted, etc). See Chord name for more.
And in the future, simply starting off from one of the Jazz templates (Jazz Lead Sheet, Jazz Combo, Jazz Big Band) will set up your score to use MuseScore everywhere possible.
In reply to Chords are the easy part, by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the quick reply! I was totally unaware of the whole Template functionality of Musescore.
In reply to Jazz Font for Notation? by newsome
You didn't miss anything. There is currently no jazz font for notation in MuseScore, mainly because a open source font doesn't exist and nobody with the skills stands up to make one. If you are this guy or know someone, direct him to this forum.
In reply to You didn't miss anything. by [DELETED] 5
Now you have me confused. See attached for Musescore snippet using the jazz font.
In reply to @lasconic by xavierjazz
Newsome and cords, the two users who commented on this thread are talking about a font for the notes, the rests and so on. There is nothing like this in MuseScore currently. You are talking about a font for text and chordnames and indeed, in MuseScore 1.1 a font named MuseJazz has been introduced for this purpose.