Hello all!
I recently sent a post about my choral piece, and had to *not* use my choral
stylesheet. Seeing what the default output looks like lit a fire under my butt
to get a stylesheet project going ASAP — I haven’t really seen a default
Lilypond score (as opposed to tiny snippets) in at least two years, and had
honestly forgotten how unelegant it looks.
My idea is that we have a basic set of stylesheets for the main types of scores
— e.g., piano solo, organ solo, instrumental solo/part, choir, full score, etc.
— which can be \include-d by the user to give a truly beautiful default
appearance right out of the box.
By way of an example, my choral_octavo stylesheet results in the attached
screenshot (which shows the top ½ of the first score page of my setting of
“When You Are Old and Grey”). To my eye, that is significantly superior to the
default output.
I realise that a lot of the final, fine-detail decisions would be subjective…
But I offer that there would be many benefits to including with the standard
distribution a well-crafted (e.g., with default fonts, better spacing
parameters, better titling options and layout, etc.) hierarchical collection of
default stylesheets that individuals could call with a simple (e.g.)
\stylesheet “choral_octavo”
and then extend (e.g., incorporating non-standard fonts, etc.) as
needed/desired.
Would anyone be interested in working on this with me?
All the best,
Kieren.
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Kieren MacMillan, composer
www: <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info>
email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info
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