Marnen Laibow-Koser escreveu: > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> Marnen Laibow-Koser escreveu: > [...] >>> Nope, wrong again. My original judgement came in fact from viewing the >>> PDF file. > [...] >> The fanciest computer displays are 142 dpi (1600x1200 14" laptop >> screen). This is not good enough for judging typography. > > Augh! The moment I posted my earlier remark, I knew you were going to > say this. I neglected to mention that I did in fact magnify the PDF > file to a point where I could be sure that the proportions I was seeing > were accurate. I often do this to judge typography, and it has served > me very well in other cases.
You cannot judge typography from screen, no matter how much you magnify. It's just not the same thing. Anyone who has ever designed a font can tell you the same thing. (-- Yes, I did design a font; a music font at that) >> - Yes, LilyPond uses heavy barlines, at approx. 1.9 >> stafflinethickness (20 pt staff height, 0.5pt stafflinethickness) >> >> - Whether you think that's ugly or not, is a personal opinion. > > Yes. "Ugly" is a personal opinion. "Out of the mainstream", however, > is not a personal opinion, but is a measurable statistic. Yes, but we already determined that it was not "out of mainstream", but rather "away from average". > The issue here is not the quality of my printer, but Lilypond's > typographic decisions, which I have also confirmed through > high-resolution examination of PDF files, as I mentioned above. I > thought we had a good substantive discussion of these points starting; > methodological quibbles can't make *everything* go away. In the end, it's about how things look on paper. Without proper paper print-outs, I don't see how you can have a substantive point-of-view on how the output looks. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
