Re: ugly default output

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> There's *lots* of "short" music that would benefit greatly from
>> beautiful typesetting.
> 
> "Short" music, per se, isn't the problem.

Well, it is in case it leads to very tight typesetting.  The
out-of-the-box settings of LilyPond aren't suited to that.

Have a look at code issues 2141 to 2145.

  https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2141
  https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2142
  https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2143
  https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2144
  https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2145

Except issue 2141, which is partially solved, these are open
problems.

Note that it *is* possible to tighten horizontal spacing
with some not too complicated manual tweaks, cf.

  http://lilypondblog.org/2013/11/engraving-challenges-horizontal-spacing/


    Werner