On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:18:12 -0600 >> From: Andrew Hawryluk <[email protected]> >> Subject: Engraving essay questions and RFC >> To: lilypond-devel <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 >> > > Hi Andrew, > This looks great to me- I like seeing Lilypond compared to several > other editions of the same piece at the end. > I just have one comment about the following: > >> - Finale’s beamed stems are almost always too long when >> they extend >> off the staff. > > Your benchmarking method currently takes the default output and compares it > to classic engravings. But this means you're considering things > like the "Patterson Beams" plugin in Finale a tweak; yet it is an > automated tool that takes two or three mouse-clicks and is a standard part > of the engraving process for any serious Finale user.
Yes, I do consider "Patterson Beams" a tweak, but it would be worth stating this explicitly in the text. My reasoning is that the plugin is an additional step I have to remember before I print the score, and if I do any additional note editing, the edited regions revert to Finale's default beams (IIRC). The same thing is certainly true about horizontal note-spacing adjustments, and it drives me nuts (I refer to "beat spacing" with the measure tool). When working in Finale, I have to always follow an optimum order of operations, e.g. "Oh, that alto stem collides with the lyrics, but I don't want to fix it now because I haven't selected the best line breaks yet and I can't choose the best inter-stave spacing until then. I hope I'll still remember this collision is there before I upload it." > Also, I really think it would be helpful to additionally show fully > tweaked versions of both the Finale and Lilypond scores, to give an idea > of the techniques/time necessary to get optimal output in both pieces of > software. I think I can get a copyist to do this on the Finale > side if you're interested. I was going to remark that some fine-tuning can bring either score into conformance with the engraved editions, but actually doing it would be more convincing, no? I have a tiny adjustment to make on the Finale score, but once I've done it I can send you the file. Thanks for your input, Andrew > -Jonathan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
