Re: stylesheets, defaults, and other in-Pond-erables

[Urs Liska]

Hi Kieren,

having contemplated all this for a few days I have come up with two more 
questions regarding your intentions:

a)
Do you want LilyPond to achieve the results of the benchmark tests by 
'automatic engraving', i.e. only with general overrides and settings? Or 
will you accept local tweaks too?

b)
When comparing to the benchmark scores do you want the LilyPond scores 
look exactly like their models or 'as good as' their models?

In addition to these questions I have a suggestion: If you are going to 
have a set of multiple style sheets and example scores I'd highly 
recommend to put it into a Git repository which allows others to 
contribute through pull requests.
I repeat my offer to do this in the context of openlilylib.org where it 
would be a good fit. We could host everything there which doesn't 
directly go into LilyPond proper.
This could also a good place to present the results.

But even if you don't like this idea pleas seriously consider the Git 
repo suggestion.

Best
Urs

Am 18.07.2013 05:51, schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm going full-bore on getting some of my scores re-engraved in the next month 
> or so. (They tend to be cram-engraved under pressure for the premiere, and then 
> never returned to due to the next commission on the docket…)
>
> As a result, I'm hoping to break out a series of stylesheets (or stylesheet 
> sets):
>      instrument (e.g., violin) solo
>      piano solo
>      piano + vocal
>      piano + solo instrument
>      organ solo
>      instrumental ensemble (e.g., piano quartet)
>      chorus a cappella
>      orchestra
>      orchestra + chorus
>
> I would love for the fruits of my labour to benefit the Lilypond community, in 
> the sense that some of the overrides might become defaults, and the other files 
> might be presented as a package of easily-included templates/files distributed 
> with (or nearby) the application/binary/docs.
>
> To that end, I'm hoping to get suggestions about particular scores in the above 
> categories which the Lilypond community would consider benchmarks.
> We used to claim to use Barenreiter as the benchmark, so I suppose that might 
> be the place to start?
> Any references would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
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