Development diary, part 10

Development diary, part 10

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...
Development diary, part nine

Development diary, part nine

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...
Development diary, part eight

Development diary, part eight

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...
Development diary, part six

Development diary, part six

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...
Development diary, part the fifth

Development diary, part the fifth

All of a sudden, over the past week I have received lots of requests for an update on our progress, so here we go. My last update was at the start of November, on the occasion of the first anniversary of our team joining Steinberg. This new update comes more or less...

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