Re: Some audicious hand-engraved slurs compared to LilyPond

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 03/12/13 13:16, David Kastrup wrote:
> LilyPond's rendition of the slurs is actually reasonable readable.
> However, the measures take probably 40% more width.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.  My impression is that older scores are 
often more horizontally (and vertically) compact in order to save on the number 
of plates that need to be engraved and corrected.

> And the tuplet numbers are definitely awful.  I tried it with 2.16.2,
> and the results were either equally awful, or one of the tuplet numbers
> was written in the middle of the beams.  Can't reproduce this right now
> with -dpreview, however, so whether the tuplet numbers are in the clouds
> or the beams probably depends on some internal evaluation order.

The tuplet number placement is bizarre.  There's no reason why it shouldn't be 
close to the beams.