2011/6/12 Marc Mouries <m...@mouries.net>: > > 2011/6/11 Janek Warchoł <lemniskata.bernoull...@gmail.com> >> AFAIK this was a common practice in XIXth century engraving (a period >> that LilyPond tries to mimic), but it is considered now obsolete, at >> least by some people >> (http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/sottieng.pdf page 6). > > thanks for the link that's really interesting. I know that Lilypond's goal > is to produce score similar to manual hand-graved scores but should lilypond > try to mimic obsolete XIXth century engraving rules?
I don't think so. I think it may be good to define some alternate "engraving styles" for users to choose from. For example: - old ( \set Staff.extraNatural = ##t, steep beams, rounder noteheads etc) for people that *want* to mimic XIXth century engraving - modern ( \set Staff.extraNatural = ##f, flatter beams, a bit thinner lines, maybe Gonville font, etc) for people used to the look of modern scores - default (something between) > Would it be useful to the lilypond community to generate a lilypond version > of the excerpt in the referenced document "Essay on the true art of music > engraving"? You mean that it would be a good idea to check if Lily doesn't make any mistakes mentioned there? I'm investigating it. cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
