Re: [OT} Was "Re: Rounded beams"

[David Kastrup]

Tim Reeves <address@hidden> writes:

>>"LilyPond's focus is creating good, readable scores.  That's what
> typography is about.  Not creating visual artworks.  The boundary
> conditions for bulk manufacturing work (like engraving once was) are not
> that dissimilar: skilled and effective workers are not the same as
> artists.  Typography is about rendering the content, not being it."
>
>
> There are obviously some different philosophies at play here, but the line 
> between "good, readable scores" and "visual artworks" is at least a little 
> fuzzy, isn't it?

"Good, readable scores" is the boundary condition.  Meeting it with
standard elements is typography.  If we are talking about individualized
artworks where readability takes a second place in the priorities,
that's not typography but calligraphy.

-- 
David Kastrup