2013/5/11 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: > Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> writes: >> my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that >> with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated >> typesetting. If you want publication quality, you _have_ to tweak the >> output quite heavily - would you rather do this via setting >> control-points directly? Actually, \shape is quite close to the >> spirit of automated engraving, because if the layout changes slightly, >> \shape modifications usually "adapt" and still produce good results. > > Not if there is a change in line/page breaking.
Sure, but it's still about a thousand times more reliable than overriding control-points directly. >> Well, to look from a different perspective: if there were any pieces i >> had engraved without using \shape (since it was added to LilyPond), >> they most probably didn't contain any slurs at all. > > Or the post processing would have been done using inkscape or some > similar tool... At any rate, \shape is no substitute to fixing > LilyPond's typesetting of slurs. Well, as far as i know, fixing slur formatting is a very complicated problem, probably of a similar scope as skylines. It would take an experienced programmer (i.e. not me) a couple of months to fix. And we don't have many experienced programmers available. So, while i'd *love* to see slur formatting fixed, i don't expect it will happen in less than 5 years from now. > It's a stop-gap measure tied into a > particular version of LilyPond and loosely tied into a particular > version of a score. Which may sometimes cause less work than fixups > firmly tied into a particular printing of the score (which Inkscape > touchup work is). From my experience \shape adjustments require little maintenance (if introduced at appropriate moment, i.e. when line breaking is mostly set). I haven't tried using inkscape for touchups, but as far as i can see it would be much more work than \shape. 2013/5/11 Urs Liska <[email protected]>: > One characteristic of the songs is that they have very complex piano parts > that are a real challenge for LilyPond and Janek ;-) > But in the end the performance of both is very convincing, and I'm really > looking forward to having the printed copies finally! thanks ;-) best, JAnek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
