Re: Sample document to show music fonts

[Br. Samuel Springuel]

On 9/19/18 6:23 PM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Do you have any concerns about the limitations with regard to the use of 
> the Score Wizard for the Score Wizard's use case too?

The limitations I was worried about were related to the lack of variety 
of the glyphs involved in the preview.  When it comes to previewing a 
layout, variety in glyphs isn't really necessary.  When it comes to 
picking a font, it is.  The whole point of the standard "quick brown 
fox" sentence for previewing text fonts is that it includes every letter 
in the English language.  While such coverage is probably impossible for 
a music font (which would contain a whole lot more glyphs), one does 
need to see a range of the available glyphs in order to make an informed 
choice.  What you demonstrated had much better variety and the ability 
to provide a custom template file would enable a user interested in 
particular glyphs to make sure they show up.

Now that I think about it, there is one limitation which affects the 
Score Wizard use case: length of the preview.  The preview music in the 
Score Wizard is limited to 2 measures or 10 notes (of the beat length), 
whichever is shorter (not counting the pickup note, if present).  This 
makes for a nice short preview, but it never shows what happens after a 
line break.  Having the ability to have a longer preview would be 
helpful when dealing with those settings which have an effect on the 
second line, but not the first (say, instrument names).

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