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Re: Barline scans
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: Barline scans |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:34:32 +0100 |
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Marnen Laibow-Koser escreveu:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> Marnen Laibow-Koser escreveu:
> [...]
>>> Nope, wrong again. My original judgement came in fact from viewing the
>>> PDF file.
> [...]
>> The fanciest computer displays are 142 dpi (1600x1200 14" laptop
>> screen). This is not good enough for judging typography.
>
> Augh! The moment I posted my earlier remark, I knew you were going to
> say this. I neglected to mention that I did in fact magnify the PDF
> file to a point where I could be sure that the proportions I was seeing
> were accurate. I often do this to judge typography, and it has served
> me very well in other cases.
You cannot judge typography from screen, no matter how much you magnify.
It's just not the same thing. Anyone who has ever designed a font can
tell you the same thing. (-- Yes, I did design a font; a music font
at that)
>> - Yes, LilyPond uses heavy barlines, at approx. 1.9
>> stafflinethickness (20 pt staff height, 0.5pt stafflinethickness)
>>
>> - Whether you think that's ugly or not, is a personal opinion.
>
> Yes. "Ugly" is a personal opinion. "Out of the mainstream", however,
> is not a personal opinion, but is a measurable statistic.
Yes, but we already determined that it was not "out of mainstream", but
rather "away from average".
> The issue here is not the quality of my printer, but Lilypond's
> typographic decisions, which I have also confirmed through
> high-resolution examination of PDF files, as I mentioned above. I
> thought we had a good substantive discussion of these points starting;
> methodological quibbles can't make *everything* go away.
In the end, it's about how things look on paper. Without proper
paper print-outs, I don't see how you can have a substantive
point-of-view on how the output looks.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
LilyPond Software Design
-- Code for Music Notation
http://www.lilypond-design.com
- Re: Barline scans, (continued)
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Bertalan Fodor, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Bertalan Fodor, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans,
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2007/01/10
- Re: Barline scans, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2007/01/09
- Re: Barline scans, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/01/09
- Re: Barline scans, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2007/01/09
- Re: Barline scans, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2007/01/09
- Re: Barline scans, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2007/01/09