On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:07 +0100, Alexander Kobel wrote: > On 03/25/2014 01:10 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > The following is completely off-topic, but I’d like to share some > > observations I often make and thoughts I have and ask for your opinion: > > Hi Simon, > > just a few random thoughts to your remarks; I'll try to keep it short. > > > – For what I know of best practice in typography, it is normally > > unnecessary to use slurs for indicating melismata. [...] > > This discussion popped up several times already. IIRC, we always agreed > not to agree: Singers of old (in particular, Renaissance) music expect > that there are long melismata all over a piece, and prefer not to have > huge slurs in their scores. Singers of more modern music, where > melismata often are only a few notes, prefer slurs. I -- as a singer > familiar with both -- am confused whenever a piece of one epoch uses the > style of the other. > > > – The default Denemo output reflects the now common, but faulty practice > > of writing syl- la- ble instead of syl - la - ble [...] > > Ugh. Ugly, but Denemo's fault.
the Denemo user's fault (me, in this case), it would seem I should have written -- instead of - attached ... ignorance (sigh!). > Do they have an internal representation > of "proper" hyphens? I cannot imagine that the person who wrote the > exporter is so unfamiliar with LilyPond's syntax to mix that up. it is simpler than that - you type in lyrics as LilyPond syntax (more-or-less, I think). [...] > > – In order to increase legibility and clarity it’s also much advisable > > to use at least one StaffGroup, [...] > > Sure. Again, Denemo's fault (or the user didn't specify it). The second of these, the user of Denemo, (me), rather than Denemo which supports the braces quite extensively. (If I had started from a template it would have had some braces, no doubt). Richard > At least > not Lily's. > > > Just my two Satoshi... > > > Best, > Alexander _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
