You can adjust the price per item (between 0,025 and 0,045 eurocents) to
compensate for complex pages. (Remember that Donemus pays this price to
their engravers. They have their own overhead costs that go on top of
their rate.) That's what I do and it works fine.
dc wrote:
First of all, thanks to the list-members who commented on this issue.
The per-item pricing was mentioned here because at least one publisher
(Donemus) is known to use it. I find that it reflects rather well the
complexity of the music and the data content of the page. What it
doesn't take into account is the variable amount of time spent tweaking
the layout of the music (for page turns, for instance, or other
aesthetical considerations), the slurs, the grace notes, the text
underlay, etc., etc.. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by
"nit-picky" applied to it. It probably is nevertheless one of the
fairest ways of pricing.
It would be interesting, considering your own method of pricing, to know
how closely the number of items reflects the time you spend on your
sample pages.
Which in turn leads to a fairly simple plug-in request (but are there
any plug-in developers left here?): improving the "Count items" plug-in
so it would
1) give the total
2) copy the results to the clipboard (for pasting in a spreadsheet).
Dennis
P.S. Of all the music I've ever done (Renaissance to Classical), the
most time-consuming was probably Couperin, because of the very numerous
"grace notes" that don't space well at all in Finale and the complicated
continuo figurings (and their line extensions).
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