The font of an ottava number
What is the font used for the ottava numbers? (8,15,etc) The reason I ask is because when I uncheck the "numbers only" button to clarify va or vb, the font defaults to the style setting of FreeSerif, thus changing the look of the number, and I don't know the font used for the ottava to have this be set up so that it resembles the original 8 as a number only. It doesn't look good when there is a mix of ottavas with different fonts on a score, yet I want to be explicit with the vb but not with the va. Any suggestions?
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I believe it it MScore/Emmentaler or whatever is configured as the Musical Symbols Font in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#style-edit-gene…
Interestingly it does not use the Musical Text Font, as I'd have expected
In reply to I believe it it by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the information. Yeah, you'd think it'd be the text font...
Hrm. Is there a way to get this to be a choice in the Styles->Text->Ottava->Font? It seems to be lacking on my system. Or is this only for the system of MuseScore?
I just want some sort of uniformity if I also have the "va" tacked on to the number.
In reply to Thanks for the information. by worldwideweary
the "va" comes from the same font, if you untic the 'numbers only' in inspector. Not sure what's the purpose of the Ottava test style though (which for some strange reason looks as if disabled), I think it gets used when you change stuff on the line properties
Argh, I just realized I think it's because I'm using Gonville. When Gonville is used there is a shift in font of the number. I don't know if this is a bug with that particular font or what. With the other two fonts there is no problem. Thanks for having me look into this a bit further.
P.S. Bravura's 8va looks a bit more pleasing to my eyes than Emmentaler's on my system. It'd be nice to be able to some how have a mix up in the sense of using mainly Emmentaler or Gonville but when it comes to this particular thing (ottavias) be Bravura, and in that sense it'd be nice if that were an option in the text style of the ottava.