Re: shortened flags affair, part 5 - length of notes extending far from staff

[Phil Holmes]



Gardner Read is unequivocal on stem length:

 

"For all note heads that lie higher than the second added space above the staff, a downward stem touches the middle staff line".

 

Ditto the same rule for upward stems with note heads under the staff.  So the proposal is against his "rule".

 

Kurt Stone shows the same.

 

Ted Ross shows the same.

 

So - if we consider these to be the authorities, we should not change how stem lengths are calculated for this situation.

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Phil Holmes

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Janek Warchoł

To: address@hidden

Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:11 PM

Subject: shortened flags affair,part 5 - length of notes extending far from staff

Hi,

next thing is to decide what the output of { c32 c[ c] c64 c[ c] } should be.

Currently the stems of unbeamed notes are lenghtened to middle line only ("current output.png"). 

In my opinion this looks weird, i'd suggest something like "suggested output.png".

However, this is only my personal opinion.

What do engraving books say about it? Or maybe do you recall some examples?

(i suppose randomly searching score databases like imslp.org has a little chance of success in reasonable time...)

cheers,

Janek

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