----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Burfitt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen.
Graham Percival wrote ....
PS if you want a hint, one of those discussions was in 2007.
Graham, Thanks for the pointer..had a chuckle with the continued
discussion 2 years later. Pity the solution was never
accepted/implemented, probably not a very important issue then, but I
believe it will be in a few years to come if we still want 'beautiful'
output.
I didn't read this as arriving at a solution.
Kaz Kylheku wrote ....
In fact, Lilypond's output doesn't have a resolution. It is vector
graphics. The music symbols you are seeing are drawn using Bezier
curves and lines.
A line must have a starting point, an ending point or length, and a
thickness at least. Whether those attributes are expressed in pixels,
inches, mm or whatnots - they are still a form of resolution.
Not at all. It would be possible to express a line width as .111111111111
etc mm. Eventually you hit the computer's limits on numerical resolution,
but this is far better than display resolution.
If I want a horizontal line 10 inches long and 1/100th inch thick, I'm
going to have problems displaying it on 96dpi screen if I want those
dimensions respected. It's a problem of resolution.
Exactly. And until screen resolutions improve, you're never going to get
the on screen display as good as the printed version.
--
Phil Holmes
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