Re: Lighter appearance

[David Rogers]

On 2008-11-14 at 08:09, Johan Vromans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While comparing the LilyPond gegerated output with the output of a
> competitor program, I noticed that the LP outout is much 'heavier'.
>
> See e.g., http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/lilsib.jpg .
>
> The top line is from LilyPond, the bottom line is from a Sibelius
> printout. I think the larger noteheads in combination with the thinner
> lines make the score easier to read.
>
> Is there a set of settings to make LP output lighter? Setting
> line-thickness = \staff-space / 16
>
> seems a good start, but I assume there's more to it.

If you look at a good score of anything that was printed before 
the time of computers, you can see that Lilypond looks 'almost 
like real music', and Sibelius looks 'like a computer' and 'not 
like real music'.

I suggest that if it’s difficult to read you should just 
increase the staff size - which will simply make everything bigger.

David