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Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave


From: David Wright
Subject: Re: Lines or Boxes without reference to score or stave
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 15:27:53 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu 06 Apr 2017 at 13:24:28 (-0500), Guy Stalnaker wrote:
> David,
> 
> By placed I simply meant that the creator of the final document has to
> incorporate the music into their document using their preferred editing
> tool (I don't even know what it is, PageMaker, Publisher, etc.). They are
> also not well-verserd in the use of image files, etc. and their
> understanding of how dragging object handles affects final clarity is less
> than optimal. They know what they know.

Then I think the first thing you have to do is talk to them about
what they're using. Find out what they think the best format is.
Then check it out. If it's a good choice, great. If it's a bad one,
made through their ignorance of the software, you might want to
help educate them into a better choice.

> I'm trying to help them understand that my score output can work in their
> document with as little (hopefully even NO) modification on their part. One
> way is to show them that the music as engraved will "fit" on their pages as
> is and having an output file that shows them the boundaries of their page
> and margins will help them, hopefully and literally, see that this is so. I
> can set modify my output in various sizes, yet all "within the box" and
> they can make decisions about which output is best for use (I've actually
> created five different output files changing #(set-global-staff-size 12)
> for each.

That's good. It might help show them that you can produce output
at any size they want.

> Right now I'm giving them PDF. I can as easily give them other image
> formats (which I have done in the past) to be incorporated into their
> document.

If they can handle that, great. But it would still be nice to supply
images at the approriate size so they don't have to fiddle with that.

Cheers,
David.



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