Musescore fonts in Inkscape or Writer?
Hello dear List!
I was wondering if it is possible to use Bravura or Emmentaler as a "normal" font, when in Inkscape or Office, (LibreOffice Writer in my case), I'm using Musescore 2.3.2 on Ubuntu Studio 18.04.1 LTS.
Many thanks in advance,
best!
Jorge.
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I didn't check (install) it to see if it works, but at least for Bravura there exist an OpenType font on SMuFL, see: https://www.smufl.org/fonts/
In reply to I didn't check (install) it… by kuwitt
Hi Kuwitt!
Thanks for the reply, I installed it, and it appears in the inkscape fonts, however only alphanumerical characters are available, none of the music symbols, am I missing something?
best!
In reply to I didn't check (install) it… by kuwitt
By the way, I installed it with the following method:
If you need the fonts to be available system-wide, you'll need to copy them to /usr/local/share/fonts and reboot (or manually rebuild the font cache with fc-cache -f -v).
You can confirm they are installed correctly by running fc-list | grep ""
In reply to By the way, I installed it… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
As mentioned I don't have installed this font ;-) - maybe someday.
I don't using Ubuntu, but OpenSuse. There it's enough to copy it to the correct usr folder for OpenType fonts for using a font system wide.
Do you have installed any font viewer on your system? Most fonts contains special unicode characters, maybe search for inserting they.
In reply to As mentioned I don't have… by kuwitt
My understanding is that there are music versions of both bravura and emmantaler. It appears you have not found the music version. People who have the non-music version installed on their computers at times have problems with MuseScore as a result. I can't find THE discussion that make this clear but I did find several references searching recent posts.
In reply to My understanding is that… by mike320
I installed the Bravura and BravuraText files, and with the correct unicode the symbols appear, but I find that a complete working-flow killer, must be a better way ...
What I would really like, is to drag and drop symbols from musescore into inkscape some how, through a pallette ... for now I do an "Image Capture" as an svg, of what I want, save it, and import.
Is there a better method? should be, right?
In reply to I installed the Bravura and… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
It seems to me (not a programmer) that MuseScore does not use the system clipboard so copying to and from Musescore does not work. I have copied between different 2.x versions (like 2.1 and 2.3.2) but not between 2.x and 3.0. This is probably because a different version of QT was used for the interfaces and the internal structure of the two programs changed enough.
In reply to I installed the Bravura and… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
Inside Inkscape there's a tool "Glyphs..." (Text->Glyphs...). Choose the Bravura font, change the range to all and it should be possible to insert musical symbols of this font.
In reply to Inside Inkscape there's a… by kuwitt
Yes! Thanks Kuwitt!!
In reply to As mentioned I don't have… by kuwitt
Actually It works in LibreOffice Writer, I think it has to do with Inkscape, to access the special characters you have to enter the unicode ... quite cumbersome :(
In reply to Actually It works in… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
As far as I know Inkscape wasn't designed to be a font editor. Anyhow, if your goal is to look at, edit, or otherwise easily access all the characters of a given font, I'd be looking at a program actually designed for the purpose, like FontForge.
In reply to As far as I know Inkscape… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc! Thank you for your suggestion. However I'm not trying to edit the font, but rather have easy access to the symbols that are available in Musescore. So, for example, if I have prepared a score in Musescore, but I need to further edit in Inkscape, and I have forgotten to insert a silence, or a dynamic or if I have come up with a new idea, I usually have to go to Musescore and make an image capture of the desired symbol, save as .svg, then import in inkscape.
In the long run this is rather cumbersome. I was wondering if there is a way to have easier access to the symbols offered in Musescore, Is this possible? I thought of using them as text, do you know of an easier way?
Many thanks in advance!
Jorge.
In reply to Hi Marc! Thank you for your… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
I think it's cumbersome because you have chosen an inherently cumbersome approach. Why attempt to edit a score in Inkscape? If there is some specific custom symb you need, why not just create that in Inkscape and copy/paste it into MuseScore? That's going to be much simpler.
In reply to I think it's cumbersome… by Marc Sabatella
I usually import images in musescore, however, sometimes I need to achieve some things that I find easier to (or to my knowledge not yet possible in musescore) do in Inkscape at the moment, for example:
Hence my question regarding whether there is an easier way to import the symbols offered in musescore to inkscape ... would be awesome to have a "graphical editing mode" in Musescore! :D
In reply to I usually import images in… by Jorge Eduardo Jonas
Not sure how you are using Inkscape to get around the lack of staff type change midscore, but it's not particularly difficult to achieve that effect in MuseScore already, and it's easier in MuseScore 3, so as long as you're creating experimental notation anyhow and talking about features for the future, might be worth trying out MuseScore 3 builds.
Anyhow, everything else you describe is definitely going to be way easier if you design the graphics in Inkscape and then copy them over to MuseScore. Feel free to post an example to help us understand better, but I'm 99% sure you get results just as good or better with much less effort that way.