Native American Flute Tracks

• Jun 25, 2013 - 06:06
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
needs info
Project
Native American Flute fingering

'naf_six_hole.js' is saved in ~/Contents/Resources/plugins.
'NAFTracks_SixHole.ttf' is saved in ~/Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts

When I try to use the plugin, instead of the fingering diagrams, numbers in 30pt Arial shows up on the manuscript, below the corresponding notes.

Did I miss something?

Mike Walker - anrobaglas@gmail.com

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• Jun 26, 2013 - 19:06

Hi, thanks for checking back. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both the font and the plugin. It still does not work. :-(

For what it's worth, I have tried using the font in Pages, and that works just fine, so I believe the font is properly installed.

Thank you,
Mike Walker
anrobaglas@gmail.com

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• Sep 6, 2013 - 01:12

A possible workaround:

Note: "I'm a PC", to quote the old TV ads, so not sure this will work, but I'm always an optimist...

  1. Use the NAF Fingering plugin, getting the giant numbers per what you've described
  2. Point the mouse at one of the numbers and click on it to open the context menu (ctrl-click, I think)
  3. From the context menu, click on Select->All Similar Elements
  4. Bring up the context menu again on one of the big numbers. This time from the context menu, choose Text Properties...
  5. In the Text Properties dialog, use the Font: choice box at the top to switch to the "NAFTracks Six Hole" font, then click OK to save the change

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• Sep 6, 2013 - 05:21

Were you able to get it to work? I am also getting the numbers rather than the font and i was not able to get the work around to work on a MAC.

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• Sep 6, 2013 - 07:11

Assuming the #6 question is for me, my answer is no: I haven't made that potential workaround work ("workaround" here meaning #5 in this series of comments). To be more specific, I didn't get it working on a MAC, since I'm on Windows. But, yes I did get a simulation of it to work on Windows.

Based on your feedback, it appears it can't be called a "workaround". Rather, it looks like this was an "experiment".

That I thought it might work at all was based on a /guess/ what might be going on on the MAC. (My guess was that maybe there was some sort of bind-by-name problem between the font name coded in the fingering plugin, and the font name in the TTF font, intermediated by the MAC's api's and MuseScore.)

This is not the happiest result (no workaround), but it appears we now know a couple new things: that more than one MAC user is experiencing this problem; and that trying to get the font to work within MuseScore by opening it from a GUI choice-box fails. (My thought about trying Musescore's GUI's choice-box was based on the assumption that's what was done when a user here reported being successful opening the font with Pages).

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• Mar 20, 2014 - 01:02

I am using a Windows computer. However, I believe the observation I have made would apply to all platforms. While trying to switch to another font (to invert the fingering diagrams) I initially found that numbers were displayed instead of the diagrams. What happened was that while changing the font name called by the plugin, I had made a typing error. After I corrected the plugin with the exact name of the font, as it was installed in the font directory, the plugin started working correctly again, using the new (inverted) font.

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• Nov 3, 2014 - 15:18

Hi, I'm new here.

I was wondering if anyone has successfully gotten this working on a Mac.

I've tested the font installation in Word and it works just fine there, but MuseScore doesn't seem to display it properly, either in 1.3 or the 2.0 beta1 I'm playing with.

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• Nov 4, 2014 - 14:12

I have not been following 2.0 development, but what I understand is that 1.0 plugins would need to be re-written.
Version 1.0 does include a usable plugin debugger and so you could step through and see if an error is thrown when the font is accessed.

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