by Daniel Spreadbury | Jun 29, 2015 | Design, MAKING NOTES
After the last instalment’s detailed discussion of beam grouping and sloping, today’s development update is going to focus on some of the issues around laying out a page of music, in particular working in the horizontal dimension, including casting off and...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Mar 6, 2015 | Design, MAKING NOTES
As a wise man once said, there are as many rules of music engraving as there are music engravers. This is a joke, of course, but perhaps only half of one: although there are certain aspects of how music notation should be presented that more or less everybody can...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Dec 18, 2014 | Design, MAKING NOTES
As the year draws to a close, thoughts naturally turn to the events of the past twelve months, and indeed to the promise of the year ahead. For us, the past year represents a lot of forward progress on our project, but the year ahead will bring more milestones on the...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Sep 30, 2014 | Design, MAKING NOTES
As summer gives way to autumn here in London, it’s time for another update on our progress. As the photo above shows, there is great satisfaction to be gained from lining things up just so. In this post, I’m going to discuss two of the areas in which we...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Jun 4, 2014 | Design, MAKING NOTES
It’s been almost three months since the last instalment in this series, so it’s high time for another update on our progress. In this update, as promised I will share some information about our music font, Bravura, and the project we have been leading to...
by Daniel Spreadbury | Mar 12, 2014 | Design, MAKING NOTES
In the last update, we started discussing some of the individual engines that are under development to handle atomic notation and engraving tasks, and I described the engines for note and rest grouping, and positioning rests in multiple voices. Let’s take a look...
