NOTATIO

I agree that instrumental parts are a different thing from a score.

I often use this quote: "Just consider for a moment whether you know of any piece of music where a movement finishes short of the end of a line, or the conclusion of the work itself is other than both at the end of a line and the end of a page; this is not accident but design, the design of the...

Here's the original Sextus page, for comparison. (I hope I'm not overloading the forum servers) .

Yes, LaTeX too. You can't fault it, but it can seem a bit mechanical? I'm nit-picking, of course: I'd rather people produced anodyne but accurate stuff in Lilypond than badly done stuff in Finale. I was asked to create a revised edition of some liturgical music for a well-known fenland University ch...

Finally had time to finish all six parts of this Palestrina motet, each as a separate page, and I've applied a slight tint to the 'paper'. There's only two places in all where I haven't quite matched his original line breaks: mostly problems due to the modern innovation of putting lyrics actually un...

Certainly the font is a part of it. (I guess an interesting experiment would be to do a page of default output from LP in Maestro, Opus, Bravura.... -- and vice versa: Finale with Gootville, etc.) But I think it's the note spacing and page layout too. Whenever I see a page done in Lilypond, I always...

My small criticism of Lilypond (apart from not wanting to learn and type code, of course :lol: ) is that output from Lilypond always looks like output from Lilypond. I dare say there are ways of personalising the output, but the stuff I've seen tends to have a certain homogeneity to it. That may be ...

John Ruggero wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 16:20 Crick and Watson, etc. who, working alone

Crick and Watson not the best example of an individual working alone, for at least three reasons.

I remain puzzled as to why a great notational product has yet to appear. Because notation has as many exceptions as rules. It is an evolved, inconsistent, human language; and that's something that computers struggle with. And, you only have to look at forums of any notation apps to see that differe...

The NoteAbility Pro developer is my thesis supervisor :) As I said earlier, it is an extraordinary achievement for one person: more impressive than Encore. I wish I'd heard about it earlier. But its future is sadly in doubt, unless he open-sources it and persuade others to take up the mantle. One t...