What is the font of the music notes?

• Apr 3, 2009 - 09:05

May I know what is the font used by the music notes? Can MuseScore uses other music fonts like those used by Finale?


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The font currently used is the feta font, also used in the lilypond project. Currently MuseScore is not ready to use other fonts as well. It's a matter of finding more developers for improving the MuseScore project.

In reply to by Thomas

I will like to know how to edit the font symbols. I need to substitute the G clef with an lower 8 with a C clef in 3rd space. I searched in my font files in windows and I cannot find the feta font.

In reply to by Mephi

Editing the font is maybe not the best way to do it. You could write your tune with the Glower8 clef and then right click the clef -> set invisible. Then press Z to access the symbol dialog and drag a C clef at the right spot.

Btw, the font is not installed on your system but is embedded in MuseScore binary.

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Test C 3rd space.mscz 1.7 KB

In reply to by Mephi

Does this have something to do with the two year old thread on fonts you posted to? If not, you should post a new thread with a more detailed explanation of the problem you are having. Are you just having teouble finding the tenor clef? It,s located along with he rest of the clefs in the Celfs palette on the left sid of the screen. But again, if for some reason this doesn't answer your question, please start a new theead rather than confusing the issue further by posting in this unrelated and long-dormant thread on fonts.

Years ago I wanted to try MuseScore. Certain things that require a learning curve have stopped me from enjoyin the experience. One of them is the old tenor clef that I need to use published in religious music for men.

http://www.vop.com/article.php?id=189

I also need to learn a lot of programming. I will miss putting the beats in each measure and the counting of pitches, Bells used and many other useful things that I need in my music. But this is with the intention of just using that specific tenor clef (C clef in second space from top (third from bottom) instead of the other tenor clefs (C clef in fourth line from bottom or G clef with an 8va in the bottom.

The closest I have gotten is hiding the g clef with 8va in the bottom and inserting an instrumental c cleff and position it independantly, but then I need to do it for every staff and if I move measures or rearrange my clefs go all around.

If the graphic music font (I have to say graphic because sometimes people uses the term music font to refer to a sound font) is not embeded, then I can edit the font and replace clef symbols and just tell the software to use a different character set for what I need.

I am not a programmer, please help me understand. Does this means that the only way to use this part of feta font is to get the source, include the characters of the feta font to be used and then recompile ?

Or it is a total different font just based on feta?

Is there an easier alternative ?

Mephi

In reply to by Mephi

The easiest alternative I can think of. Download the feta font, install it on your system and in MuseScore, use a normal text (select a note and Ctrl + T), choose Feta as the font for this text and find the good character for it. I didn't test but it should work.

Yep, because I asked and because I do not have teeth to bite I have been thrown some pacifiers ...

So here I am, a non programmer with a huge task. So ... I may be stubborn but I am also a learner. I need patience and consideration to my questions as a beginner.

Probable goals (specific to general)

1.- to include an specific variation of the C clef in second space (from top) as an option to the clef menu

2.- To be able to create your own clefs (e clef, a clef, etc) and be able to move any clef to any line or space and hear the proper sound.

4.- to be able to edit and create your own symbols

Ok so I downloaded the source and untar. So here is my first set of questions:

1.- Would it be better for me to learn about QT or c++ in order to edit musescore ?

2.- What is the best way to handle the source (editor compiler, etc.).

Correct me if I am wrong, my guess is that I have to edit the file cef.cpp and the function setSym(xxxx).

You have found yourself a student. Help me learn !!!

So, after looking at several questions I guess a way to edit or make a user palette symbol would be great !!!

Right now the best solution I have had is to use FontCreator and edit mscore-20.ttf with my own symbols. But then I need to learn how to recompile for Windows !!!

Ok lets see:

Qt 4.7.3
CMake 2.8
Zlib
libVorbis
libOgg
portaudio.dll
portaudio.h
JACK 1.9.7
include/sndfile.h
libsndfile-1.dll
nclude/lame.h

and the paths:

C:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.3\mingw\bin
C:\QtSDK\mingw\bin
c:\cmake
(mscore path)

and sources:

SVN code
tortoiseSVN

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