----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:12 AM
Subject: Fin vs. Sib vs. Lilypond [was Re: [Finale] Tan: Henle engraving
video]
Trent Johnston wrote:
One thing I did notice in the video was that all the layout issues were
sorted out before the engraving started. He was engraving page 40 and he
knew the bars of music were going to appear on that page. It's funny that
the first piece of advice that most notation program manuals give is to
type all the music in and then work out the page layout.
Your comment seems to suggest that the engraver is working only with the
contents of page 40, and spacing the music without prior knowledge of what
is on pages 1-39, and 41 to ....
What I meant was that layout had been sorted out prior to engraving process.
The engraver was probably well aware of the music before and after but was
under instruction from the editor as to number of staves per page and page
turns. So when in engraving page 40 he was only concerned with the music
appearing on that page. Something which SCORE still uses - it produces a
score by building up complete pages so layout etc has been decided before
hand or it's a very slow and cumbersome process of removing and adding bars
from a potentially long list page files.
I was also intrigued how the stems and beams were engraved free hand no
ruler or guide. We didn't get a clear indication from the video how they
where orginally pencilled in again free handed or with a protractor and
rule. If drawn free hand it would raise question of the Henle beams being a
philosphy rather than mechanical mathematical rule. Also notice that the
engraver can't enlarge the score 800% to fine tune the position of layout
marks. Maybe the mechanical look that people comment on comes from the fact
with a computer we can have everything
precisely measured. Maybe we should trust your eyes more than a computer
measurement.
What would have been really interesting if the engraver was doing something
with lyrics. Things really go wild when lyrics are added, especially English
and German as I find the syllable groups can be quite long throwing out good
spacing.
Thanks for the tip about saving a back up file first and then use a copy for
layout etc. makes sense.
Thanks.
Trent
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