Change appearance of clef octavation (issue 3295) (issue 8359043)

2013-04-04 Thread tdanielsmusic
Like Phil and his wife, I prefer the current version. This patch makes the octavation symbol too coarse and heavy. I suspect the old scores which used punches to engrave the octavation symbol were not able to reliably reproduce small light italic characters and had no option but to use a heavy

Re: Change appearance of clef octavation (issue 3295) (issue 8359043)

2013-04-04 Thread dak
It's probably worth noting that by far most uses of octavated clefs are for the purpose of correctness (similar to transposition in xxx): the player/singer would not actually execute the piece differently if the octavation was omitted from the clef. I can think of one exception: modern-clef

Re: Change appearance of clef octavation (issue 3295) (issue 8359043)

2013-04-04 Thread janek . lilypond
Reviewers: Trevor Daniels, dak, Message: Hi, i suggest to move this discussion to tracker issue. Rietveld is good for discussing details of the code changes, but it's the tracker issue that we expect to be kept around longer (and also images can be attached there). best, Janek Description: