Re: Where to Download the New Music Fonts?

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.11.2014 10:24, schrieb Davide Liessi:
> 2014-11-05 4:14 GMT+01:00 tisimst <address@hidden>:
> > Nope.  By majority vote, the name changed from Amadeus to Scorlatti, in
> > honor of the SCORE notation system, the inspiration of the font.
> I've thought from the beginning that "Scorlatti" was very strange to
> my ears of native Italian speaker and I think that most Italian (or
> maybe non-English?) speakers would think you actually meant
> "Scarlatti".
>
> If you want to keep the homage to composers Alessandro and Domenico, I
> would prefer the font name to be "Scarlatti", but this would weaken
> the link to SCORE.
> (By the way, I voted for "Partitura", i.e. the Italian word for
> "score", which would still be my choice.)
>
> Of course renaming the font now (and against the outcome of the vote)
> could be undesirable, but after Son_V's email I felt like saying it.

Maybe a compromise would be to rename it to Scorelatti ?

> Anyway, I think that you did a wonderful job with the fonts.
> I still have not tried them extensively, but I think that easy access
> to a variety of fonts is a great feature both from the user and the
> professional publisher points of view.
>
> Best wishes,
> Davide
>
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