Re: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow

[Owain Sutton]

On 09:42, Mon 09 Sep 2013, Carl Peterson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:42:28 -0400
> From: Carl Peterson <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Notehead of harmonic whole note too narrow
> To: Phil Holmes <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, Mailinglist lilypond-user
>  <address@hidden>
> 
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owain Sutton" <address@hidden
> > >
> >
> >>
> >> It strikes me more as an issue of horizontal alignment than notehead size.
> >>
> >> For comparison, here's an example published by Boosey & Hawkes (Britten
> >> violin
> >> concerto): http://i.imgur.com/fiAgr6B.jpg
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thanks.  I'll update the tracker with this.
> 
> 
> That example is inconsistent...in the penultimate measure, one harmonic
> looks to be center-aligned, another looks to be left-aligned, and in the
> preceding two measures, harmonics are left-aligned, consistent with the LP
> example. To me it looks like more space is needed inside the notehead.
> There is not as much contrast in the line widths in the scanned example as
> in the LP example.
> 
> Carl

I agree that it's not a *good* example, if anything it's evidence of a lack of 
any particular convention, especially once ties are involved.