Re: What is LilyPond's ideal of "classical music engraving" ?

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.02.2014 19:11, schrieb Phil Holmes:
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> > Howdy!
> >
> >         I am starting to investigate how Ties and Slurs should look
> > according to the
> > statement on lilypond.org that lilypond
> >
> >         "creates beautiful sheet music following the best traditions of
> > classical music engraving."
> >
> >       I was looking at a couple of engravings, Ralph Kirkpatrick's
> > Shirmer Goldberg and
> > the OpenGoldberg....
> >
> >        the more engraving's I look at, computer generated or not, the
> > more I realize
> > how good LilyPond is... So where is an example of good historical
> > engraving that
> > is diverse enough in its content so as to be representative of that model
> > that
> > LilyPond seeks to emulate?
> >
> >          -steve
>
>
> I would say one thing: that in terms of consistency, LilyPond
> outperforms a number of earlier pieces of engraved music hands down.  I
> was having a look at the Augener version of "Six Shropshire Songs" by
> Butterworth and the ties in that would drive Janek round the bend.
> Asymmetrical, not even level, no consistency where they start or
> finish.  I do think it's possible we're getting over-critical, just
> because computers can be so perfect.

We were trying to copy the style of a hand-engraved U.E. score recently. 
And when looking at it closely I was really astonished about all the 
typographical imperfections.

Which also gives an idea about manual imperfections not necessarily 
being a bad thing.

Urs

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