Opus Chords Sans Font Family

Chord Symbols is a font for musicians. With this font, you can quickly write beautiful chords, using only simple keyboard characters as input.

Chords display correctly as they are being typed. As soon as I tab or 'space over' to enter the next chord symbol, the last chord entered reverts to a serif font. I've checked Macintosh HD >Library >Fonts. All the Sibelius.otf font files, including the Opus family, appear to be present. The other chord font options, Inkpen2 and. Free fonts by category, type, daily updates. Fonts are in ttf, otf format and with direct download link and preview. Bold fonts, heavy fonts, helvetica font family.

Musicians tend to write chords with regular characters. They use # instead of a genuine sharp, b instead of a genuine flat, dim instead of a small circle, etc. With Chord Symbols, your chords will be better looking, more easily readable and more efficiently notated. Chord Symbols helps you to write the chords the way you like it. Whether you prefer ‘maj7’ or ‘m7’ or a small triangle for a major seventh, whether you want ‘m’, ‘mi’, ‘min’ or a horizontal line for a minor chord, this font will suit you. Chord Symbols is originally created out of the need to write chords above pop song lyrics. It is designed to also work smoothly in music notation software, like Sibelius, Finale and Encore.

Roedy Green wrote: >I decided to measure just how big various fonts really are in pixels. >The variance is quite astounding. >In typesetting, a 10 point font doesn't mean the characters are 10 points high, the 10 points (or 10/72 inches) is the vertical distance from the baseline of one row of characters to the next baseline. Not all the new fonts work this way but for most normal fonts an upper case A is around 70 to 75 percent of the point size set for a font. The Java font model does not follow traditional typesetting in this and several other areas. The biggest irritant for me is the assumption that a font can only be plain, bold, italic or bold+italic.

I have 14 variations of Bodoni, 12 for FranklinGothic, etc. This, plus having the font name change depending on the OS led me to write my own version of JFontChooser that gets it's font list and fonts from a central font server (a normal web server with the fonts on it). Jeff Coffield alexandre.@yahoo.fr 04:34. On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:34:18 -0700 (PDT), wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said: >>What about the *same font* under Windows / OS X and under >Java 1.5 / 1.6? >>At various sizes (probably especially at smaller sizes), >I'm pretty sure there are notable differences >due to differences in the rendering engines. To answer that question, run FontShower as an app under those various runtimes and look at font metric numbers it produces. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes, and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex.

Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick, and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it. ~ Ray Kurzweil (born: 1948-02-12 age: 61) Roedy Green 13:03. On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:57:18 +0100, RedGrittyBrick wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said: >>>I have not yet figured out how to pull this off in CSS.

This font size varying so widely cause big problems with CSS. You specify a list of possible fonts for a style. Which one gets picked depends on what the user has installed.

Suddenly type grows or shrinks for that style to double the size you intended! This is NOT a good thing. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes, and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick, and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it. ~ Ray Kurzweil (born: 1948-02-12 age: 61) RedGrittyBrick 14:18. On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:18:13 +0100, RedGrittyBrick wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said: >>In your FontShower, on my PC, Gautami and Biondi are near the extremes.

>Gautami needs the extra interline spacing to allow room for Telugu vowel >Introduction To Botany Nabors Ebook. signs above and below the glyphs. If you force the interline spacing to >be halved you may render the text unreadable in some languages.

I am not including those outliers. Roedy Green wrote: >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:57:18 +0100, RedGrittyBrick >wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted >someone who said: >>>>I have not yet figured out how to pull this off in CSS. >>This font size varying so widely cause big problems with CSS. You >specify a list of possible fonts for a style. Which one gets picked >depends on what the user has installed. Suddenly type grows or >shrinks for that style to double the size you intended!

This is NOT a >good thing. When your eyes grow as old as mine, Roedy (and I thought they already had?), you may come to value the ability to override some youngster's notion of what's legible.

(One site I view frequently offers a whole pile of Web pages with body text so small I couldn't have read it when I was twenty and twenty-twenty. Six pixels tall, tops, for the capitals; less for most lower-case letters. Oh, sorry, I mean 'lower-case blots.' Maybe the site thinks their pages will load faster if the fonts are small. Thank goodness for 'CTRL+'!).

-- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid RedGrittyBrick 02:22. Roedy Green wrote: >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:18:13 +0100, RedGrittyBrick >wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted >someone who said: >>>In your FontShower, on my PC, Gautami and Biondi are near the extremes.

>>Gautami needs the extra interline spacing to allow room for Telugu vowel >>signs above and below the glyphs. If you force the interline spacing to >>be halved you may render the text unreadable in some languages. >>I am not including those outliers.

Here are some real world CSS >font-family statements: >>font-family: Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Lucida >Console','Lucida Sans','Lucida Sans Unicode','Courier New','Segoe >UI',Arial,monospace; >People who write such lists don't know what they are doing. I imagine all readers of this newsgroup do. Just in case, here what I thought these lists were for. Free Activation Keys For Microsoft Office more. The first typeface in the list is the one the web-page designer would like to be used, the second is the one the designer would like to be used if the first typeface is not available on the user's computer.

The second typeface should be very similar to the first (otherwise - what's the point?). The last typeface in the list is a last-resort.

Last resorts fall into three categories: serif, sans and monospaced. All the prior items in a sane list should also fall into the same one of these three categories. The earlier entries in the list should probably fally into a narrower category of typeface. You could probably disregard the above for headlines composed of decorative typefaces.

You could probably disregard the above if you intend your web page to look wildly bohemian and jarring for artistic reasons. In those cases I'd expect the designer to be choosing typefaces carefully to have the desired effect. >font-family: 'Segoe Print','Lucida Console','Courier New',monospace; That would make sense to me if the first one was Segoe UI Mono - In other words monospaced rather than script style. >font-family: 'Lucida Console','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Lucida >Sans','Lucida Sans Unicode','Courier New','Segoe UI',Arial,monospace; >>font-family: garamond,palatino,cursive,serif; >>font-family: 'Tiresias PCfont Z','Palatino Linotype','Bookman Old >Style','Book Antiqua','Trebuchet MS','Lucida Sans','Lucida Sans >Unicode',Verdana,serif; Utterly bonkers. >font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; >>font-family: Arial,'Arial Black',sans-serif; >>font-family: Calibri,'Bitstream Vera Sans','Segoe >UI',Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; >>font-family: Calibri,'Bitstream Vera Sans','Segoe >UI',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; >>font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Lucida Console','Lucida >Sans','Lucida Sans Unicode','Courier New','Segoe UI',Arial,monospace; For the purposes of this discussion I think we should disregard the craziest of the compositions above. Specifically which of the above typefaces do you consider to have inter-line spacing that is inappropriate or inconsistent with those of the others in the same list?

If so, why would you include it in the list? -- RGB Roedy Green 07:06.

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:22:01 +0100, RedGrittyBrick wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said: >>font-family: 'Tiresias PCfont Z','Palatino Linotype','Bookman Old >>Style','Book Antiqua','Trebuchet MS','Lucida Sans','Lucida Sans >>Unicode',Verdana,serif; >>Utterly bonkers. This a selection for body type. Tiresias is free font you need to install. It has special legibility properties.

See You want to consider the beauty of the font, the 'tone' of the font -- e.g. Old fashioned, friendly, business-like, eccentric, unique. You want to consider how well the font renders on Windows.

Some fonts use sub-pixel Clear-type optimisation. However, these fonts won't be available elsewhere. You have to consider likely availability. Having to consider quirkiness in true font size is an unnecessary complication. Perhaps what might help given the current situation is a tool to edit your style sheets so you can see how your web pages would render if various fonts were or were not locally available. One thing I have discovered is that a font that is very appealing seen in a small isolated sample can be completely wrong when seen in a big block or context with some other font.

-- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products When you can�t find a bug, you are probably looking in the wrong place. When you can�t find your glasses, you don�t keep scanning the same spot because you are convinced that is where you left them. ~ Roedy Roedy Green 07:16.

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:21:05 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said: >>When your eyes grow as old as mine, Roedy (and I thought >they already had?), you may come to value the ability to >override some youngster's notion of what's legible. This is a different problem. The true font size problem causes unintended variations in font size WITHIN a page or website. Some websites use unusually large or small type throughout. You can fix that with the browser zoom, though the fool browsers don't remember your zoom setting on a per-website basis. Without glasses, I can still read the bottom line on the close up eye chart. However, I tend to design my website with slightly bigger than usual fonts to make it easier for the average visitor to read.

I aim at the newbie who may not even know about the zoom feature. I get a small amount of email thanking me for doing that. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products When you can�t find a bug, you are probably looking in the wrong place. When you can�t find your glasses, you don�t keep scanning the same spot because you are convinced that is where you left them. ~ Roedy John B.

Matthews 08:33. In article, Eric Sosman wrote: >When your eyes grow as old as mine, Roedy (and I thought >they already had?), you may come to value the ability to >override some youngster's notion of what's legible. Not too long ago, I asked the ophthalmologist if the optometrist could instruct the optician to grind single-focus lenses optimized to my usual desktop viewing distance.

I shouldn't have been surprised to learn that it was a common request. Recycling old frames and declining the common frills, I got an inexpensive pair of 'computer' glasses to complement my bifocals. They're great, as long as I don't try to drive with them.

Matthews 'Pre-frontal lobotomy?' I asked absentmindedly. Bugbear 08:46. Roedy Green wrote: >On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:22:01 +0100, RedGrittyBrick >wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted >someone who said: >>>>font-family: 'Tiresias PCfont Z','Palatino Linotype','Bookman Old >>>Style','Book Antiqua','Trebuchet MS','Lucida Sans','Lucida Sans >>>Unicode',Verdana,serif; >>>>Utterly bonkers.

Sorry, that was rude of me. I mean that it has a mixture of serif and non-serf typefaces. I find that rather a surprising thing to do. >>This a selection for body type. Tiresias is free font you need to >install.

It has special legibility properties. See >>>>You want to consider the beauty of the font, the 'tone' of the font -- >e.g. Old fashioned, friendly, business-like, eccentric, unique. >>You want to consider how well the font renders on Windows.

And on iPhones etc? >Some fonts >use sub-pixel Clear-type optimisation. However, these fonts won't be >available elsewhere.

>You have to consider likely availability. And likelihood of visitors downloading and installing it? >>Having to consider quirkiness in true font size is an unnecessary >complication. Which of the above have quirky interline spacing? >>Perhaps what might help given the current situation is a tool to edit >your style sheets so you can see how your web pages would render if >various fonts were or were not locally available. In your HTML you can specify named alternate styles. In Firefox you can then select from those alternate styles.

See menu View, Page Style. In Firefox (and many other browsers) you can override the fonts specified in the web page.

This probably wouldn't do all you want. There are plugins for Firefox that might. >One thing I have discovered is that a font that is very appealing seen >in a small isolated sample can be completely wrong when seen in a big >block or context with some other font.

Which may be an argument for selecting fonts which were designed to be used together. Perhaps the fonts that Microsoft commissioned from Matthew Carter would form such a set? -- RGB John B. Matthews 12:19. Matthews wrote: >In article, >Eric Sosman wrote: >>>When your eyes grow as old as mine, Roedy (and I thought >>they already had?), you may come to value the ability to >>override some youngster's notion of what's legible. >>Not too long ago, I asked the ophthalmologist if the optometrist could >instruct the optician to grind single-focus lenses optimized to my usual >desktop viewing distance. 'The King asked the Queen, and the Queen asked the Dairymaid' >I shouldn't have been surprised to learn that >it was a common request.

Recycling old frames and declining the common >frills, I got an inexpensive pair of 'computer' glasses to complement my >bifocals. They're great, as long as I don't try to drive with them. Sounds like something worth trying.

Quite recently I suffered through a MANDATORY series of on-line training courses (best forgotten), all implemented in Flash, immune to the browser's magnification controls. The fonts came out teeny-tiny; the only thing that saved me was that even upon enlargement (reading glasses *and* a hand-held magnifier, it turned out that the message conveyed by the itsy-bitsy glyph-ghosts was mostly free of meaningful content and could be safely ignored. A plea to Web designers and others who put together presentations and displays of various kinds: Please do not value your own oh-so-gorgeous layout over the reader's ability to read!

Your reader may, like me, be an aging dinosaur with feeble eyes, or may be a young sharp-eyed person who wants to view your material on a tiny cell phone screen -- either way, if you insist on your layout to the exclusion of legibility you might as well just scrap the text and show pretty pictures. Pre-literacy rulez, o Weh! -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid John B. Matthews 19:23. In article, Lew wrote: I'm not an eye care professional, but I encourage people to visit their preferred eye care professional regularly. Conversely, I would consider it unethical to give even the appearance of discouraging proper eye care. I was also exaggerating the familiar IANAL.

>I am not an airplane mechanic. Nor am I, but I've collaborated on software used by airplane mechanics.

If there was any confusion, I'd consider an appropriate disclaimer. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com Martin Gregorie 06:43. On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:51:46 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote: >A plea to Web designers and others who put together >presentations and displays of various kinds: Please do not value your >own oh-so-gorgeous layout over the reader's ability to read! >Another crime committed by bad designers, especially those who think Word is a fit tool for building web pages, is to think that HTML is for writing WYSIWYG pages. It's not and never has been designed for that. Good web designers accept that users must have the ability to override the font, size, backgrounds etc, on their pages to suit their screen size, browser capability and eyesight. My pages are tested in Opera and Firefox, but not IE since I ditched Windows.

I also periodically check my pages with Lynx. -- martin@ Martin Gregorie gregorie. Essex, UK org Roedy Green 09:50. On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:50:16 +0100, RedGrittyBrick wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said: >>I mean that it has a mixture of serif and non-serf typefaces. I find >that rather a surprising thing to do. Agreed, but it is not as though you are mixing the fonts on the same screen. It just reflects the possibility of using a serif or sans-serif body font. Though fonts are nominally serif or sans-serif, it is actually a gradation.

For example Consolas has a serifed l. Lucida Sans Unicode has quite variable stroke widths, more typical of a serif font.

Palatino Linotype has quite extreme serifs, as does Courier New and TimesRoman. Garamond and Constantia are pruned. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products When you can�t find a bug, you are probably looking in the wrong place. When you can�t find your glasses, you don�t keep scanning the same spot because you are convinced that is where you left them.