#DORICO 8VA UPDATE#
#DORICO 8VA SOFTWARE#

#DORICO 8VA UPDATE#

If you have already registered and downloaded a previous version of Ambitus, you will already have received an update notification via email. It was created and is made available under the SIL Open Font License, and as such it is available at no charge however, a suggested contribution of $10 or whatever you care to contribute towards this project is greatly appreciated. I hope you find this update useful, and I’m always open for suggestions.Īmbitus is available at Notation Central. Since the varying shapes of accidentals and notes require fine-tuning the positions of parentheses around them, those rules have become quite complicated, and there may be edge cases I have overlooked – so if you notice something that doesn’t look quite right, please let me know.īut for the most part, it should be easy now to place parentheses around notes or just around accidentals:ĭigits and hyphen/minus are now empty characters they only modify other glyphs, but aren’t rendered by themselves. I have implemented parenthesized notes using contextual alternates, which could be described as a set of rules that allow precise placement of characters (in this case, parentheses) depending on which other characters precede or follow them.

You can, however, specify an offset after the octave line to compensate for that:Ĭompare Bq-3kkk/q-0/q-5/ and Bq-3kkk4/q-0/q-5/ here: If one of the following notes is lower than the “anchor”, the line can‘t move out of its way.

#DORICO 8VA SOFTWARE#

If you need longer lines, just repeat the character, and the line will extend to the right, so for example Tq3KKKK/q2/q1/q/ Bh-5jjjjj/h-4/h-3/h-2/h-1/ will give youĪbout here is where the limitations of what can be done with a simple font (as opposed to actual music notation software like Dorico) become even more obvious. They will automatically move out of the way if the note they are anchored to protrudes beyond the staff lines. A lowercase k and j result in a corresponding 8ba or 15ma indicator below the staff. By adding a K or J after the note, you get an 8va or 15ma indicator above the staff.

Octave lines (8va/8ba etc.) are now available.

I’m happy to announce that the 1.2 update of Ambitus, my font for pitch incipits, scales, and range diagrams that can be used in any word processor or music notation software, has been released.Īfter the 1.1 update which added soprano, mezzo-soprano, and percussion clefs, noteheads, and some related playing techniques (thanks to users for the suggestions!), I went to work on some other, slightly more complicated feature requests.

Dorico 8va