Re: shortened flags affair, part 4 - downstem 8th flag

[Trevor Daniels]

Janek Warchoł wrote Sunday, March 06, 2011 1:54 AM


> I was curious too, so i wrote it down.
> Indeed it looks like he used non-default layout (by default Lily 
> uses
> 3 systems), but i won't call it non-optimal. In my opinion fitting
> this music in two systems is perfectly reasonable here (and maybe 
> even
> better than spreading over 3 systems), and Lily should be able to
> execute this flawlessly.
> Unfortunately, measure 6 still looks bad. It's not as spectacular 
> as
> in his pdf, but i won't said its acceptable at all. It's a shame
> especially because this problem is something in which Finale 
> (2008)
> excels (see attachment).

Finale certainly excels at the problem; pity about its solution!
Nice to see some irony!

> Still, even not counting this, he undoubtedly proved - with some 
> very
> simple music - that LilyPond 2.10.33 failed to produce acceptable
> output :(

Yes, but Carl is on to it.

Optimising the slur shapes is a similar problem to optimising beam
positions.  Collecting currently poor examples in a reg test is a 
good
starting point for optimising both of these.

> Janek
Trevor



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