[smufl-discuss] Re: Splayed/Pronged stems

[dspreadbury]

Knut wrote:

> Considering all the precomposed stem glyphs included in SMuFL,
> wouldn’t it be appropriate to also add glyphs for played/pronged stems.

Could you describe in more detail, perhaps by attaching a small picture or
by posting a picture to an image hosting service (e.g. Imgur), exactly
what you mean by this?

In general, at least for fonts intended for use in scoring applications,
it is anticipated that the scoring application itself will draw the stems,
because the stem length for a note varies according to the position of the
note in the staff, any parent beam, and so on. So only very basic stems
are included in SMuFL to help with creating simple examples in text-based
applications.

Daniel

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[Knut Nergaard]

Here’s an example of how splayed stems should look.
The relevant font character consists of the two diagonal stems on each side of the middle note. It’s added as an articulation in Finale, and I’ve made sure to include enough space between the lines to cover half noteheads and black noteheads, on ledger lines.



There are several other ways to draw these, depending on number of notes, available space and engraving style. My set of glyphs cover up and down-stem groups of two and three notes.

Knut