Comments on: Using Microtones in Finale

By: PerMAgnus Lindborg

PerMAgnus Lindborg — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:49:16 +0000

http://www.pmpm.tk and http://www.notam02.no/~perli

By: PerMAgnus Lindborg

PerMAgnus Lindborg — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:47:55 +0000

hello Matthew, and Owain,

just wanted to say THANK YOU for the beautiful font and for the clear instrux on setting up Finale to handle 1/4 and 1/8 notes. Reading ETF files generated by OpenMusic now works seamlessly, with the accidentals correctly displayed. nice,

cheers PerMagnus

By: Matthew Hindson

Matthew Hindson — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:22:38 +0000

Thanks Prent for the comment. I’ve known about the Sagittal font for a while. It’s an interesting website - the unusual tuning certainly adds a bit to that piece that is played when the page loads!

I’ll put a link to it underneath my font, as well as Christian Textier’s Microtona font.

By: Prent Rodgers

Prent Rodgers — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:20:44 +0000

Matthew, I noticed your post on microtonal accidentals. Very well done font. Have you looked at the Sagittal notation? This is an attempt to put all the requirements of microtonal notation into a single font. It is a bit of a struggle at first, but it has the attractive quality of being able to instantly see the ratio similarities between notes as the keys change. Take a look at some of the work of George Secor and Dave Keenan available at http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/sagittal/ . As a composer who works in small number ratio tunings, it is a dream to work in Sagittal.

Now if I can just get it loaded into Lilypond…