Gonville's system bracket offset

• Aug 7, 2020 - 02:35
Reported version
3.5
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

https://musescore.org/en/node/307745

Utilizing the Gonville font within Musescore, brackets have a weird offset look to them that works well only when the bracket line thickness is very very thin and then barely offsetted with the system. For example:

gonville-offsetlooksdecent.png

Yet that isn't the default that is loaded with the font, but rather, as shown in that support post:

gonvilledefaults.png

Delving into the font itself via FontForge:
gootville-uniE003-original.png
I noticed that by raising this (and lowering the bottom version) to be on the line rather than within it such as:
gootville-modded.png

Yields results:

gonville-altered.png
Albeit with different settings as shown (0.42sp + .10sp distance)

My point here is that I think that the font should be updated to do what I did here, and additionally that Gonville should be given something like (0.42 size + .10sp distance) for its default metadata. Maybe I'll make a pull request and see if it is accepted. Either way, it would be better imo than to leave it alone as it is.


Comments

Fix version
3.5.1