Re: Made In The Pond™ update

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Joram,

> I like very much what Lilypond offers by default.

I think Lilypond's defaults are okay — certainly, I prefer them to those of 
Finale and Sibelius (note: I haven't seen a default Dorico document) — but they 
can, in my opinion, be improved significantly. If I can get to the point where 
I feel my stylesheets can be "downported" to default tweaks that I would feel 
comfortable submitting as a patch, I will do so.

> And I have my own styles and tweaks to get what I consider more beautiful.

Beauty and style is, to a great extent, purely subjective.

> But your scores look so much better!

I appreciate the kind words. I'm getting close to a housestyle I feel very 
proud of.

> The choice of fonts is surely one part (music and text fonts).

Absolutely. Moving to [Abraham Lee’s] Cadence as my music font was a huge step 
forward for my housestyle. And I'm getting very close on the text fonts as well.

> And then there are probably tweaks for spacing/positioning etc.

These are critical.

> What would you call the most important tweaks.

That's a tough question… I think the secret to my engraving success (such as it 
is) is a combination of a few critical spacing tweaks (both horizontal and 
vertical), and a liberal use of the edition-engraver to take each score to the 
goal line.

> Or would you say it's not so much general tweaks but more often
> the specific situation in a score that require particular tweaks?

The general tweaks make every score look better than Lilypond default.
The specific tweaks make each score look better than that.
=)

Best,
Kieren.
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