Re: Henle piano template

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.08.2013 21:27, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > > I have found some images of Henle's Moonlight Sonata.
> > > Old edition: http://www.ackermanmusic.co.uk/img/P/412339_1.jpg
> > > And the new one (from 2013):
> > > http://www.di-arezzo.com/multimedia/images/henle/part/hn1062.jpg
> > > Same publishing house, but so many differences :)
> > Is there a preferred one for our purposes here?
>  From 2013 does not sound like plate engraving.  Plate engraving has some
> disadvantages (you need to make a lot of decisions early and then let
> the engraving stick with it).  We are not really interested in mimicking
> those things that are a downside of plate engraving, and of course there
> is little sense in adapting techniques/styles for which we don't have
> the algorithmic consequences under control.
>
> But in general, we are more interested in the inspiration by state of
> the art plate engraving rather than state of the art computer engraving,
> since LilyPond wants to be a frontrunner in computer engraving.
I think both these points are very good.

Trying to have a closer look at the images (which are unfortunately of 
such poor quality) I'm probably biased but I find the appearance of the 
'old' score infinitely superior.
While the 'new' Henle score is undoubtedly much better than a default 
Finale score it _is_ having this 'computer engraving appeal' we all want 
to overcome.
While the old one is a model one can use as a challenge I would say the 
new one doesn't look as nice as a LilyPond score.

My 2ct
Urs