On Sun 09 Jul 2017 at 20:28:56 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 09.07.2017 20:01, Wols Lists wrote: > >On 09/07/17 18:38, Simon Albrecht wrote: > >>On 09.07.2017 18:24, caag...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>As you can see on the screenshot, both texts are misaligned. > >>That’s your opinion. > >See below. The result can EASILY be unplayable music ... > What an exaggeration. > >>>The first one, a \tempo, is placed *under* the rehearsal mark instead > >>>of next to it. > >>Well, both are placed exactly according to standard conventions: the > >>center of the RehearsalMark aligned to the bar line, and the left edge > >>of the MetronomeMark aligned to the note at the same moment. And since > >>the former has a higher outside-staff-priority (see > >><http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/outside_002dstaff-objects>) > >>it is further away from the staff. > >The problem with this is firstly, it's horribly ugly and no real (i.e. a > >person) engraver would ever do this if he took any pride in his work, > > > >and secondly and far more importantly for me, it makes playing the music > >hard-to-impossible. What's the point of having sheet music if it's > >unplayable? > > And why exactly would the effect be so disastrous? Because it gets a > little more difficult to get good page turns?
We've been here before, just over a year ago. Wols/Anthonys sets band parts, where you expect there to be _no_ page turns; the music might be in a plastic bag if it's raining. So it's a niche use of the term "unplayable". > >A real engraver who wanted to stick to those conventions would > >presumably shift the note to the right so it cleared the rehearsal mark > >and let the metronome mark drop down. > > A real engraver would probably have shifted everything just a little > so it fell in place looking like he had done nothing extraordinary > at all. There are many things to be desired in LilyPond whose > implementation would require algorithms much more sophisticated than > those we have now. And until a crew of such genius to do that comes > about, we have to live with making manual adjustments. That’s the > point I was trying to make. It’s not like this could be fixed by > changing a few settings. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
