Allow user to import more music fonts

[yue-na]

Your idea

Allow users to import more SMuFL-compliant music fonts so that users can change music font easily rather than complie the whole MuseScore.

Problem to be solved

Currently there are 8 music fonts in MuseScore by default. However users cannot use other music fonts. Other notation software like Sibelius and Dorico allow users to import third-party music fonts. By adding this feature it would be helpful for users who want to use their preferred music fonts.

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[mercuree]

I would also suggest the ability to embed any fonts (not just SMuFL-compliant) into the .mscz file For example, there is a situation where the fonts embedded in Musescore contain incorrect glyphs of Byzantine Musical Symbols. A solution would be, for example, the ability to embed the Noto music font, where these glyphs are drawn correctly.

[MarcSabatella]

Actually embedding fonts directly into the file is kind of separate thing, with licensing issues to consider. This issue is really just about the about to use third-party music fonts.

Also, this issue is about music fonts specifically, not text fonts. You can already use third party text fonts. But I don't see any way you could possibly use a third-party music music font if it wasn't SMuFL-compliant - MuseScore would have no idea how to map the symbols. I think you might be confusing this with text fonts - the Byzantine symbols are part of the Unicode standard for text fonts, not the SMuFL stan dard for music fonts.

[mercuree]

Thanks @MarcSabatella for the clarification. I'll hide the comment as it's not relevant.

[Jojo-Schmitz]

See https://github.com/cbjeukendrup/MuseScore/tree/custom-music-fonts Which is what I took as a basis to implement it in my MuseScore 3.7 Evolution