Re: Sample document to show music fonts

[Urs Liska]

Am 20.09.2018 um 02:09 schrieb 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 there seems to be a certain common understanding of my initial 
idea, may I repeat my request for someone to provide a suitable default 
sample document?
Coming up with a score that provides representative details with as 
little content as possible does require some creativity, and it would be 
a good idea if someone else deals with that so I can spend my time with 
the coding itself.

> 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).

https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/1106

Urs