Re: New user question - relative bowing and fingering marks

[Valentin Villenave]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen<address@hidden> wrote:
> It looks like you may have found a bug.  LilyPond should format
> stuff correctly, if she produces atypical results we should
> check our references and teach her, rather than look for tweaks.

(CCing to bug-)

> So...looking for references on this is not so easy.  Stone doesn't
> say anything, Reed doesn't, Ross merely states that "probably no
> two experienced engravers will always" [place fingering in the same
> spot], but notes that "when accents are used [] with fingerings,
> the accents take their normal positions and fingerings are placed
> either abover or below [] according to the available space.
>
> Now...are bowing instructions accents?
>
> I'm attaching two scans of Baerenreiter's solo cello suite, that
> show they agree with you on the placement.  I propose to fix
> this if we cannot find better [contradicting] references.
>
>> As an aside the glyph used for upbow doesn't look consistent with the
>> rest of the glyph set. Typically the left hand side of the 'V' is
>> darker than the right. The glyph in use doesn't seem to match the
>> downbow glyph.
>
> I think you are mistaken here.  The upbow glyph (see scans)
> that I know invarably is symmetric.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Jan.

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