NOTATIO

Yes, the optical spacing is automatic, but can be turned on/off at-will. What is programming setting-rule of the optical spacing in LP? LilyPond's optical spacing is governed by a handful of tweakable properties. Normally, spacing is NOT truly proportional, but more generally based on the width of ...

OCTO wrote:Beautiful!
I wonder if the optical spacing in M26 / RH / beat 1 / voice 2 - is done automatically?

Thanks, OCTO! Yes, the optical spacing is automatic, but can be turned on/off at-will.

While I am sure that LilyPond can do a better job than Finale in some aspects of initial layout, you must be talking about Finale's default output, before one actually does the page layout. I enjoy the laying out the score exactly as I want it, measure by measure, system by system and page by page ...

Now that I actually understand what is wanted, here is my corrected version. FWIW, here's the default LilyPond output: [puzzle] Two voices in one staff - LilyPond default.png I think it does a good job--plenty legible (at least to me)--but I think I have to give my vote to John this time for creati...

That is wonderful, Knut. So basically I can open an empty FontForge document, name each glyph and create the symbols I need (clefs, noteheads...). Is that a correct way to do? If you are using FF, I'd open up the latest version of Bravura and copy all the glyphs' foreground layer to the background ...

The fact that the music just sort of exists on its own and isn't locked into a measure or a grid is great idea I am glad that you are as impressed as I was, Fred. I do sometimes get a little over-excited. :) When he explained what you are describing in the the quote above, I immediately thought: Sc...

tisimst wrote: If you'd like some help to make your fonts SMuFL compatible, I can certainly lend you a hand there. I have never looked in to the SMuFL business, so I don't know how involved it is to bring my clef up to standards. My fear would be that it might require a redesign. If you think that ...

John Ruggero wrote:I only hope that I will be able to use my current fonts and settings, or there may be no switch-over.

If you'd like some help to make your fonts SMuFL compatible, I can certainly lend you a hand there.

This is misleading -- it doesn't talk about the most important part about notation: QUALITY OF OUTPUT. It doesn't matter if the bandwagon uses Finale or Sibelius. Does it look good? I think you are partially right, but if people really answer the survey based on the original criteria--which do you ...

Just thought I'd test the waters a little bit more with LilyPond's algorithms. Here are all the samples on Maslanka's website we've been referring to, shown with/without optical corrections: lilypond-optical-spacing-showcase.png And here's OCTO's follow-up that is an excellent case study: lilypond-o...