Oh, come on -- you sound as if all hand-engraved music was of a equally super-high quality that computer notation programs can't touch, and nothing could be further from the truth.
actually i said just the opposite in my email.
There is a lot of hand-engraved music which is ugly as sin, with poor spacing and lousy sizes for the different elements and bad page turns and all the other things that computer notation programs are accused of producing.
i never said otherwise.
SOME hand-engraved music is very elegant and beautiful and of the highest quality. The same is true of SOME computer-notation-software output.
i said this.
"traditional engraving values" -- where can one look those up in a book? You sound as if there was a commonly agreed upon set of principles that all hand-engravers adhered to.
there are some basic idea(l)s that developed and have existed for a long time now.
Just as with notation software there were hacks who worked cheaply for cheap publishers and produced awful output by hand that made it into commercial releases.
i have never stated that all hand-engraving was superior to all computer engraving.
It's the user, not the tools, who adds that level of elegance.
i have said this, repeatedly. -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
