[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> If OSU says dotted rests are ok, lose OSU. Going to a music
> academic for music notation is like going to an architect for
> specific knowledge about bricklaying. I had a book by Gardner Read
> (*Music Notation*) in college and it was only a few years later,
> when I was doing business with music typesetters who were really
> knowledgeable and skilled, that I found out how deficient Dr Read's
> knowledge was and how bad some of his suggestions were.
Unfortunately, I don't know that many "bricklayers", so I have to rely
on books (I don't have time to thoroughly study engraved music -- and
I don't have much well engraved music here). Fortunately, design
decisions usually don't depend that much on engraving details.
BTW, Amazon already shipped my copy of Read, too late to cancel it now
:-)
> The reminder was also particularly ugly.
Could you tell us more about this?
> voice in the space provided. What if you have 8 different compositions
> on one page?
all of my Studies-books (with many etudes on a page) do
indentation. One even doesn't use the indent for putting the number
in.
> I saw some lilypond-produced guitar music without an octave clef. Every
> transposition should have its own modification to the clef.
That is a user's fault: we have octave clefs for this purpose, but
also a general transpose command for translating tonality.
> There is
> fresh meat for type designers, to keep them out of mischief, such as
> making lines
> too faint and dots too small because they think it looks elegant.
You've just met type designers who happen to like *fat* lines and big
dots; just give a note which symbols are too light.
> I saved the worst for last. When a staff has multiple parts and a note
> with
> stem down is on a line, the dot should go in the space below rather than
> the space
I'll look if I can fix this easily. If not, you'll have to wait till
after 1.2 before this is rectified.
> Peace, understanding, health and happiness to all beings!
> ((((((( g__n__u f_o_r_c_e )))))))
> lily_lily__lily MN[-------------------->mm@ _lilypond__
You made me curious: what is your background? (and if you are a music
professional, what draws you towards LilyPond?)
Anyway, thanks for your comments. I'll note them in the TODO.
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