Note head 'mi' too small
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MS 1.3, Win 7 Home Premium. I regularly use shape notes, thank you. However, the symbols for the half-note and quarter-note "mi" (s1mi head and s2mi head) are too small for most people to read.
I looked at MS 2.0 Beta, the half- and quarter-note "mi" is still too small, and the "fa" in the lower half of the staff is backwards! See attached example from MS 2.0 Beta.
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Comments
Have a look at Bravura and Gonville and check whether their noteheads are better
Thank you. In Bravura, the head for 'mi' is larger, much better -- but the 'fa' head is still backwards in the lower portion of the staff.
upstem fa noteheads have been fixed in 04f93ae4f6
This thread is becoming a mess :)
1/ About the half note vs whole note issue
We are now following the SMuFL standard. Unfortunately it doesn't define different symbols for whole notes and half notes. So it's normal that they use the same glyphs. It works as designed.
See SMuFL standard, p 82, Shape note noteheads.
I don't have first hand experience with Shape notes notation and I have no idea if the distinction is made in the available literature. If it's the case, we should contact the SMuFL people and ask the inclusion of whole note symbols.
2/ About the mi notehead size
It's a font designer decision. For the emmentaler font, we could change it if someone is volunteering to do it. For Gonville, you can contact Gootector via this thread: http://musescore.org/en/node/24199
3/ About the reversed Fa notehead. This is a bug. I fixed it in 04f93ae4f6
Thank you very much. This answers all my questions.
I will wait patiently for this plugin to become available in Version 2.
Following Smufl standard.
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.