Hello, a few days ago two deals with my publisher were called off. Including anger, insults (on his part) and the promise to never work together again.
Mainly the cause were disagreements how a good score looks. You may remember a few strange questions from me on this list in the last weeks and months. One example was, that the pub. wanted ties to be indistinguishable from slurs. One reason this went horrible down the toilet was that I am not a notation professional (in the classical, traditional sense that I learned to do it manually. I don't mean the so called professional as in uses Finale to publish @ Bärenreiter) but also that he isn't one but uses Coral Draw(!) to make his own notes. Needless to say this takes a huge amount of time and the self-taught approach led to a style which is sometimes nice to look at, but only suited for excerpts and examples in music theory books. I don't think he ever produced a score longer than two A4 pages. So what he complained constantly about was that I am not able to move individual items pixel-wise around the screen. I can see the appeal to post-process otherwise finished scores to make last minute adjustments. A common example was moving one barline two pixels or so to the left/right but leave all other barlines were they are. Most of these adjustments are related to his false knowledge of music notation and his position to abuse his view, but maybe I had got my money anyway if I knew how to do it, no matter how ugly the results. When converted to pdf (or ps? or svg?) can I load the whole score in Inkscape (I don't think so, I have tried it) or some other postscript or vector editor so that I can do this kind of stuff? Nils _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
