Hi David, > I just printed it and compared them side-by-side at the piano.
Thank you so much for the effort here — extremely helpful!!! > - The whole notation font needs to be replaced with a > Henle-look-alike. At the very least, LP's notehead size is much too > small for Henle; but everything else (quarter rests, fermatas, sharps > & flats, and clefs stand out in this example) looks "very LilyPond" as well. These are all fine for "Lilypond House Style", but would need to be fixed for "Henle House Style". > - The staff lines, ledger lines, and note stems need to be lightened a lot. > > - The beams may need to be darkened. (Or maybe they already match, after > lightening the staff lines and stems.) > > - Slurs need to be thinner at the ends and thicker in the middle. > > - The accidentals need to be significantly closer to their > noteheads. (I'm on version 2.17.22 - did something change? I'm getting > excessive white-space between each accidental and its note, in this > template.) > > - Staccato dots in this Henle Beethoven score are horizontally aligned > with the notehead, even when printed on the stem side of the note. > > - Two or three of the items above may affect the horizontal spacing, > which might then have to be tweaked again. "Lilypond House Style" may benefit from some of this tweaking; it definitely needs to be fixed for "Henle House Style". > - If one is really in a mood to "go crazy", is there a freely-available > text font that looks like Bodoni? I've been looking, but it's very hard to determine the licensing for certain fonts. > (Hmm... a bit of a theme there - just about everything in the Henle > score has higher contrast between thick and thin than is shown in the > LilyPond score.) That is interesting. It will be similarly telling to compare the current output to Barenreiter, Peters, and a few others of the "Big Boys". > I guess part of the question is how far it's worth going in pursuit of > this. It seems to me that the really hard parts can unfortunately be the > parts that count, when talking about appearance. Yes — that's why I intend to spend most of my time on getting a really beautiful "Lilypond House Style", and not getting too crazy about exactly duplicating the Big Boys. Thanks, Kieren. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
