NOTATIO

As info, I asked the author about WinScore -- whether it was simply a port to Windows, or whether functionality had been changed or added. He said: WinScore is, in my opinion, not suitable for production work -- it is filled with bugs, missing functionality, and generally a disaster -- though techni...

Indiana has a big music school. This style guide is primarily for dissertations, papers and other academic publications. "The faculty of the IU Composition Department recognizes that there is not uniform field-wide agreement about many notational issues composers face . . . The overriding goal ...

Very nice engraving, Abraham. What font is that?

Interesting discussion of notation strategies:

http://www.jeffreygrossman.com/engraving.html

I wonder how much of his discussion applies to LilyPond.

MJCube wrote:In the example above the staff lines and stems are way too thin to match with the font characters.

Is that an issue with the font or with settings in the program?

Sonata has undoubtedly been very influential, especially with regard to it's razor thin line weights, which has been adopted by the standard fonts in most scoring applications. Daniel Spreadbury has interestingly pointed out that this aspect likely was due to the inferior printing technology at the...

John Ruggero wrote:if one selects and clicks any measure in any source, that one measure will be displayed in one window from every source so that one can compare them.

That's amazing.

Knut, that's nicely done. Sorry to ask a question everyone else may know the answer to, but what program and font did you use?

In addition to IMSLP, good site though it is, here's another collection of scores:

http://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/musi ... scores.htm

John R.

Lots of links, many to programs but also to related resources, e.g. fonts, scanning and musical character recognition, XML and NIFF, tab, transcription.

http://www.acadiau.ca/~gcallon/www/others.htm

John R.