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by buster
10 Jun 2016, 16:40
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1
Replies: 151
Views: 172562

Re: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1

Hi John, Whose rules are you currently using? Are they Gould's or somebody else's or are they your personal preferences? If you take a look at this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/stiv2slava/videos (it's the channel of the guy who did the signature repair video posted in another thread...
by buster
02 Jun 2016, 13:16
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1
Replies: 151
Views: 172562

Re: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1

Wow, this piece is is quite challenging to do in Lilypond, but I suspect it must be a challenge to do in other scoring programs as well. I got around to finishing out the first page, more or less, though there are still some spacing issues. Verdict: for complex scores such as this one where the defa...
by buster
25 May 2016, 17:21
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: Beautifying Mallet Percussion
Replies: 22
Views: 29701

Re: Beautifying Mallet Percussion

OK then. I'm not familiar with marimba. Maybe another shape then?

edit: my first idea was noteheads in a different color. But colors don't photocopy well, and publishers want to keep costs down, I sure that it's better if everything is in black ink. So then I thought maybe different shapes...
by buster
25 May 2016, 14:21
Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
Topic: Beautifying Mallet Percussion
Replies: 22
Views: 29701

Re: Beautifying Mallet Percussion

Hi! Is this still an open problem? Here's my solution: RH with regular noteheads, LH with x (or some other shape) marimbanotes.png So first of all, it fixes the crazy inconsistent beaming, it's easy to read, it more resembles the music for other instruments. It's easy to see where the 3rd beat is, f...
by buster
24 May 2016, 02:27
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1
Replies: 151
Views: 172562

Re: [WORKBENCH] Brahms Op. 119, No. 1

Well, here's my first attempt at it so far. As you can see, i took certain liberties in my engraving. I took this not as "recreate the output" but instead "interpret however you wish". :) First three measures: instead of the kneed beams from upper staff to lower, I placed it all ...