> [...] They all show this artifact of rounded interior corners. I > promise I'm not just making this up. They come from the punch > manufacturing process AND the engraving process AND printing > process. I think it would be quite nice to incorporate these > somehow, but maybe that's just me, in which case I would do it for > myself. > > What I love about them is the eye doesn't really notice them when > they are there, but I would argue that the eye DEFINITELY notices > when they are NOT there, like with any of the major notation fonts > today. If you need more examples, I'd be happy to supply > them. Cheers!
Especially this example http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/attachment/161770/2/barenreiter-examples.png shows very well that what you want to achieve is not related to the font itself: It's definitely one level `later', so to say: The round edges, which can be clearly seen, are not only affecting the clef outline but *every intersection* of lines, including bar lines! In other words, what you need is a postprocessor that walks over the whole lilypond output and changes every intersection to have rounded edges. For example, you need to emulate that effect also for slurs that cross staff lines. Unfortunately, I haven't found something in the internet (probably not knowing the proper keywords to search for). Here you can see a `path smoother' in action: http://pyx.sourceforge.net/examples/drawing2/smoothed.html And exactly this operation should be applied to all edges (and near edges) in the image. Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
