Hello Kieren, Using stylesheets is a powerful option in Lilypond. For example I’ve got a cosmetic include that takes care of fonts and many small details, like paper margins, offsetting ^\markup in Dynamics contexts to have them centered. Also I have slightly heavier Beams (Lilypond’s Beams are significantly thinner than all other notation programs and hand engraved editions!), and also slightly thicker Staff lines.
So I simply have to include that file to give my scores the Aesthetics I want. I’ve been thinking about maybe we should create a collection of high quality style sheets users can simply include to get really nice, different styles. I think that might open up the customizabilty of Lilypond Scores to new users. Cheers, Valentin Am Freitag, 29. Oktober 2021, 17:00:30 CEST schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Kira, > > > I am also a new user > > Nice to have you in the ’Pond! > > > what draws me to Lilypond is the sheer aesthetics of it. Even the most > > basic thing created with Lilypond looks 1000 times more professional and > > attractive than MuseScore, in my opinion! > Oh, for sure. I have a choral octavo stylesheet which makes my choral scores > look better than most published scores *before I even apply a single > tweak*. I was just comforting my composer friend who is struggling [in > Finale] to get his string quartet parts looking nice enough to publish; I > showed him how Lilypond make my parts look amazing in just a few minutes > per part (~ 1 minute to compile, and then usually only a couple of tweaks > required), and he nearly wept. > > It is a learning curve though, one I’m still slogging through! > > It’s a never-ending curve… but that’s part of what makes it so enjoyable for > me! =) > > All the best, > Kieren. > ________________________________ > > Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) > ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info > ‣ email: [email protected]
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