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by OCTO
18 Mar 2017, 15:36
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: The very first pages of an orchestral score
Replies: 5
Views: 6926

Re: The very first pages of an orchestral score

Or simple:
1 Title
2 Instrumentation
3 (1) Music
by OCTO
14 Mar 2017, 18:46
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Perception of noteheads
Replies: 13
Views: 13862

Re: Perception of noteheads

My main issue with it is the shape. I generally don't like counters with straight diagonals; it makes the notehead look square and undynamic. As it is matter of taste, for me just the straight diagonals are so different from all other noteheads available. I believe that these straight lines make ac...
by OCTO
14 Mar 2017, 10:12
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Perception of noteheads
Replies: 13
Views: 13862

Re: Perception of noteheads

In my opinion, when printed, I like the most Vienna. I really can read it from a verly large distance. Sorry for bad settings with lines, I don't have idea why it is so; seems to be to thin. I guess we will soon see different optical weights of music font (Is that what all those Lilypond fonts are f...
by OCTO
13 Mar 2017, 12:27
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Interesting clef inconsistency - any explanations?
Replies: 8
Views: 14915

Re: Interesting clef inconsistency - any explanations?

RMK wrote: 13 Mar 2017, 12:10
Beautiful handwriting indeed!
Yes, I noticed several 2nd Viennese school scores to be engraved so. Some of Boulez pieces for Universal Edition were done by that technique as well.
by OCTO
13 Mar 2017, 11:29
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Perception of noteheads
Replies: 13
Views: 13862

Perception of noteheads

Apropos an earlier post of benwiggy (in another thread) I was thinking about that: My music tends to use quite small staff sizes, so a larger note head works better for clarity. I did try Maestro Wide, but the difference is slight. I also tried Maestro noteheads at 25pt, but Engraver is my preferenc...
by OCTO
12 Mar 2017, 20:19
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Schumann's use of <> on a chord for piano?
Replies: 13
Views: 16585

Re: Schumann's use of <> on a chord for piano?

Thank you for that David, indeed an amazing discovery for this topic.
by OCTO
12 Mar 2017, 20:16
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: Interesting clef inconsistency - any explanations?
Replies: 8
Views: 14915

Re: Interesting clef inconsistency - any explanations?

For my eye it doesn't look punched, but really engraved. If you look at other symbols they all look differently from each other.
Maybe I am wrong.
by OCTO
10 Mar 2017, 20:37
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Automatic Staff/System Spacing
Replies: 57
Views: 76960

Re: Automatic Staff/System Spacing

jan wrote: 10 Mar 2017, 11:33 Currently Jari is not available for answers
http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/wheres- ... -plug-ins/
by OCTO
10 Mar 2017, 20:30
Forum: Engraving Commentaries
Topic: First attempt on "serious engraving"
Replies: 12
Views: 22980

Re: First attempt on "serious engraving"

Schonbergian wrote: 10 Mar 2017, 19:12 The PDF score he posted is done in Finale, which should be fine for his purposes.
Oh, I see. I have completely missed that there is also attached another file! Now I will check it. Thank you for pointing this.
by OCTO
10 Mar 2017, 11:19
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: Automatic Staff/System Spacing
Replies: 57
Views: 76960

Re: Automatic Staff/System Spacing

Here is the first result of automatic spacing for condensed scores as described above. Well, this is truly astonishing. I will not comment the pure engraving things which can be improved in both original score and your output, rather it is really really interesting to see how the plugin works. I ha...