to Han-Wen: Greetings!
Might not a notation "Hall of Shame" be a very good addition to
the lilypond website? With luck, it could help to change attitudes
toward "rules" of notation. Rather than using
very bad examples to illustrate better practices, which the GUI Hall of
Shame does very well indeed, I think it would be far more useful to give
examples of fairly good notation, new and old, which somehow falls short
of being good enough. I'm sure that it is not illegal to use as
examples a measure or two of this and that scanned copyrighted music
under the fair use doctrine. I believe that there is a three measure
limit on that sort of thing, but even if I remember correctly it may
not be the same everywhere and it may have changed, so that factoid
should be checked by your resident staff of legal experts. ;-) If ever
there were an example of fair use, this is it. There could also be
examples of music written correctly which has been generally
misinterpreted even by concert artists. Bad practices of others can
cause a lack of confidence in notation for which the writer is
blameless, so the shame is not always that of the notator.
Would this be similar to what you meant by a "how to notate" document? I
would hope that it would be more useful if it were more entertaining.
What do you think?
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