Re: Shall we change the flags?

[David Kastrup]

Karol Majewski <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear LilyPond friends!
>
> I have to say something that keeps me awake at night: Current LilyPond
> flags look bad! They look so bad that I have to use straight flags
> instead. The big problem for me is that flags on a single note have
> different shapes. The lower flag is wider than
> flag above. I talked to Janek Warchoł and he said that this output is
> intentional and explained to me everything. However, those
> christmas-tree-flags (as I call them now) still make me sick, because
> they look inaccurate. Does anyone have the same feeling? And please
> take look at the atachment - this is how perfect flags should look
> like to me.

Well, your "perfect flags" look like braids or ornamental patterns that
are cut off at an arbitrary point.  They have some similarities to
Baroque or Rococo hair towers rather than an integral part of a
distinctive note shape composed with a focus on the note head as the
visual vortex of gravity.

At any rate: have you tried installing the Gonville fonts?  They are
supposed to have a different design.  I have no idea how that would make
the flags look, but then I am not all that interested in change.

-- 
David Kastrup