-----Original Message----- From: David Feuer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:57 AM To: lily-devel Subject: Style
I'm sure someone has brought this up before, but I've been thinking a bit about the way users tweak output in Lilypond. As it is, tweaks are generally interspersed with actual music information. This seems to make things difficult when someone tries to maintain a part that has to be transposed a couple different ways, or printed on different paper sizes, or whatever. The web deals with this problem through CSS, and I would suggest that Lilypond might do something similar: let users name timesteps, timestep edges, measures, and categories of such, and format them according to a separate program. Obviously this would be loads of work, and I don't even know if it would be feasible, but that's what I'm thinking. David Feuer ________________ Carl Sorensen here: But this flies in the very face of Lilypond's objective. The objective for lilypond is to have an automatic engraver that takes the music information and creates a beautiful engraved score. We don't want to tweak output, we want to eliminate all tweaks. Rather than use the effort to develop the tweaking system as a separate program, lilypond would prefer to use the effort to improve the engraver algorithms so no tweaking is necessary. Tweaks are (hopefully temporary) hacks to deal with weakness in the engraving algorithms. Lilypond has considered (and rejected) the Sibelius method of generating engraved output, then tweaking this output to produce the final output. While it's harder, I'm convinced that the Lilypond way is the fundamentally better way. Carl Sorensen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
