Hi all, As mentioned earlier, I am planning to deliver a Lilypond workshop together with a friend at this year's Linux Audio Conference. For the workshop slides, I already have a working setup using lilypond-book --pdf in combination with pdflatex and LaTeX Beamer.
However, I am not entirely satisfied with the *on-screen* PDF display that my current setup provides. In particular, the BWV 861 comparison between Finale (PDF from [1]) and Lilypond (generated with lilypond-book --pdf and pdflatex) does not look half as convincing as the PNG comparison on the website [2], no matter which PDF viewer I use. Don't worry, I am not gonna embark on a discussion of barline thickness for on-screen PDF rendering :) But I would be interested in your suggestions re. a best Lilypond rendering practice for my following requirements: ===BEGIN LETTER TO SANTA=== - On-screen display must be of sufficient enough quality to convince also without printed examples. The benchmark is the BWV 861 comparison mentioned above. - Must use lilypond-book and LaTeX Beamer, but choice of Lilypond/LaTeX output format (PDF, PNG, PS, etc.) is flexible. - I don't care which viewer application (acroread, Okular, etc.) I have to use for the presentation, but it should ideally work under Linux. - Doesn't hurt if the final document looks good in print, too :) However, I'd be willing to implement two parallel rendering toolchains for on-screen and print. ===END LETTER TO SANTA=== I have a feeling this might boil down to a PDF vs. PNG showdown? - For "high-quality" LaTeX documents, PDF seems to be preferable to PNG, hence my initial choice of pflatex and lilypond-book --pdf. - But I get the impression that PNGs (rather than PDFs) might be the way to go for better-quality on-screen display of Lilypond output? Any comments or pointers in the right directions will be greatly appreciated! Best, flo.H References: [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/pictures/pdf/bwv861-finale2008a.pdf;h=b4d64e6d06f68af78e3e39a0f49283b04a48be03;hb=HEAD [2] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/essay-big-page.html#Engraved-examples-_0028BWV-861_0029 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
