Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:56 PM Kieren MacMillan < kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote: > Hi Abraham, > > > What solution did Matthew propose for his criticisms? Just curious how > it turned out to satisfy him. > > He basically said “follow Ross’s guidelines”. :) > I haven’t had time to compare

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Abraham, > What solution did Matthew propose for his criticisms? Just curious how it > turned out to satisfy him. He basically said “follow Ross’s guidelines”. :) I haven’t had time to compare how Lilypond’s defaults compare to Ross’s rules… Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:47 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 21/12/2022 à 17:16, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > >> According to Wikipedia, David Maslanka is a composer who died in > 2017... ? > > Oops! I meant Matthew, his son (who is still very much alive, and who > was at the Salzburg

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 17:16, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : According to Wikipedia, David Maslanka is a composer who died in 2017... ? Oops! I meant Matthew, his son (who is still very much alive, and who was at the Salzburg conference with us). His father — whom I met several times — was a wonderful

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
> According to Wikipedia, David Maslanka is a composer who died in 2017... ? Oops! I meant Matthew, his son (who is still very much alive, and who was at the Salzburg conference with us). His father — whom I met several times — was a wonderful man, and a composer of lovely music. Kieren.

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 16:16, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Agreed. I recently hired David Maslanka to critique my engravings and help me finalize a housestyle — the first thing he noticed and criticized were the beams, especially all the intersections and wedges. According to Wikipedia, David

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Werner, > What's needed IMHO is an improved algorithm to better quantize > vertical start and end positions of beams so that the number of > grazing intersections is reduced and/or optimized. Agreed. I recently hired David Maslanka to critique my engravings and help me finalize a housestyle

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 3:09 AM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 21/12/2022 à 01:26, Abraham Lee a écrit : > > Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the original > > with a big block of whiteout that follows the entire group's outer > > skyline so it hides the staff lines? Would be a

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Abraham Lee
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 11:46 PM Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > When a beam group (especially 1/16 or shorter) crosses a staff line, it > can > > create some annoying skinny triangles that can be visually > > distracting. [...] > > > > Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-21 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 21/12/2022 à 01:26, Abraham Lee a écrit : Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the original with a big block of whiteout that follows the entire group's outer skyline so it hides the staff lines? Would be a nice feature, IMO. I know the stems can be "frenched", but would

Re: Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> When a beam group (especially 1/16 or shorter) crosses a staff line, it can > create some annoying skinny triangles that can be visually > distracting. [...] > > Is there a way to turn the stencil into a composite of the original > with a big block of whiteout that follows the entire group's

Whiteout staff lines behind beams

2022-12-20 Thread Abraham Lee
All, When a beam group (especially 1/16 or shorter) crosses a staff line, it can create some annoying skinny triangles that can be visually distracting. Here's what I mean: https://notat.io/download/file.php?id=3646 And here's an example of what the solution might look like: