Re: ugly default output

[Urs Liska]

Am 01.03.2015 um 02:39 schrieb Steve Lacy:

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes, but I'd repeat that this is less LilyPond's fault than a problem of having an amount of music that is inherently unsuitable to be typeset nicely on one system.

I'll have to say that I find this perspective a bit short-sighted. (no pun intended) 

No, it is not.
You completely misinterpreted this because you seem not to have read my prior comment to this thread (indicated by "repeat").

I'll put it another way. Say you were entering a _text_ document and have typed one sentence which is slightly too long for a line. If you're using a simple word processor it will probably break the last word to a second line, if your tool is smarter it may squeeze it to one line, which may looked cramped (-> this would be the case comparable to the OP's example).

Now I'd say: If you intend to continue entering text then simply don't bother because the problem will go away. This is in no way equivalent to saying: sorry, the tool just isn't meant to typeset short texts.

The other thing I said is: If the content of your document just doesn't fit on one line, given a page/line width and font size it isn't the fault of the tool but a problem inherent in the task.
If you (and I _did_ write this in the current thread) _have_ to typeset exactly this sentence you'd have to edit the line width or the font size. And this is exactly what you'd have to do with the given score:
- if the piece isn't complete then simply continue entering the music and _then_ look at the results.
- if the piece were complete then you'd have to change the global staff size or the line width.

Urs

There's *lots* of "short" music that would benefit greatly from beautiful typesetting.  For example, there are *many* collections of traditional Irish and Americana music, where each song is but a handful of measures long.   (See collections on itma.ie for example) 

The vast majority of this type of music on the internet is currently stored in ABC format, and poorly engraved into low-resolution images.  This music would benefit greatly from Lilypond's enhanced functionality (easy key changes, much better articulations, etc.) 

Another use-case is sheet music used for and during music instruction.  Much of these beginner's songs are also only a few measures long, but can often contain "extra verbose" articulations and lots of markup to help students learn to read music, and to make it extremely clear how the piece should be played.  

Considering Lilypond for large-scale classical music engraving only is missing a much larger part of the picture.  

Steve

 

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Urs Liska
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