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To use music symbol fonts other than its own integrated "Mozart Classic" font, Mozart (from version 10) requires (a) that the font is designed for use with Mozart (b) that it is installed in the normal way, and (c) the installation of a "mozart font description file" (.mzfont). These last are discussed here.
Mozart font description files
Important: these are not fonts. They are only necessary or useful if you already have the appropriate font installed. Also they are not needed by Mozart 9.
Mozart font description files to download:
| For the 3rd party NorMusic jazz font: | NorMusMz.mzfont |
| For the 3rd party BopMusic font: | BopMusMz.mzfont |
Installing Mozart font description files
Download the appropriate font description file from the above link, and simply move it to the 'Data' folder within the Mozart program folder.
This will depend on where you have installed Mozart but for English Windows systems the default location will be C:\Program Files\Mozart10\Data\
More about Mozart font description files
- Mozart's music symbols must come from an appropriate TrueType font. These include note bulbs, and note tails, but stems, beams, bar-lines, stave-lines and some other elements are drawn as lines, rather than utilising the actual Windows font. The .mzfont font description file contains (inter alia) information on how thick these lines should be, and fine-scale data on how joins (eg between stems and note bulbs) are achieved.
- Mozart's default "mozart classic" font does not require a .mzfont file to be present, but all other usable fonts do.
- By default Mozart installs the mzbold.mzfont file. This gives the option of a bold version of the mozart classic font.