Re: barline problem

[Stephen]

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From: "Dewdman42" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: barline problem


> that's an interesting point and perhaps in the future that will become 
> more
> standard, but I would reckon not until the displays are higher resolution,
> to match that of paper.  In any case, that's not the only use for 
> producing
> music notation.....for putting on a music stand to play.  Simply producing
> notation for the sake of study, producing lessons, etc..there are many 
> uses
> that would be very handy to be completely useable and viewable on-screen.
> Really, in an ideal situation, you should be able to look at it on the
> screen and think to yourself "ah, what nice looking notation", then print 
> it
> out and say "holy cow what beautiful notation".  Or at worst, at least if
> lilyond provided options to choose one way or the other...
>
> There is also the point that if I am going to share or even sell a piece 
> of
> sheet music online, then most likely I would want to distribute it in PDF
> form.  There is a certain polish factor that would come from the PDf 
> looking
> right.  instead of the person opening my PDF file and thinking "ick", I 
> want
> them to open it up and think, ah, nice.....then if they like it, print it
> out.

You have to look very carefully to see what you are talking about. Lilypond 
looks very nice in PDF. As already stated, the best way to display a sample 
online is in a png file format.

Stephen

> Erik Sandberg-2 wrote:
> > I think there exist music stands consisting of TFT displays nowadays, so
> > good
> > on-screen rendering is desirable to some extent. However, I'd advise to
> > produce png output if you want to view output on screen: pngs are
> > optimised
> > for on-screen viewing regardless of which viewer you use, and they can
> > probably be displayed a lot faster than pdf or ps can.
>
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