NOTATIO

OMG! Engraving rules as tweets... Done in SCORE. However, I have examples of B&H's scores far from being so meticulous...

That's great they are tweeting stuff like that. Now about that beam from B1 to B2 ...

LilyPond's default settings shows almost the same alignments :

I've never cared much for the LilyPond clefs, which is a big turnoff for me. The note heads look a little heavy to me, as well. Can another font be substituted in LilyPond?.

I prefer the LilyPond placement of the naturals at your arrow and don''t feel that Boosey's exceptional placement was necessary, but I do prefer the Boosey spacing of the naturals on the last chord. The LilyPond naturals are too close together there. I also prefer the Boosey overall more even spacing and better handling of the clash between the C natural and C sharp on beat 2 of the first measure, where it is not completely clear that the two notes play together in the Lilyond. In general, I think the Boosey is easier to read.

John Ruggero wrote: Can another font be substituted in LilyPond?

I know very little about LilyPond, but I did see there are quite a few fonts developed already:
https://fonts.openlilylib.org/

I think bunch of those are by Abraham Lee, and he has a pretty good engraving blog:
http://leighverlag.blogspot.com/

Hi John,

John Ruggero wrote:I've never cared much for the LilyPond clefs, which is a big turnoff for me. The note heads look a little heavy to me, as well. Can another font be substituted in LilyPond?. [...]

Yes, see Fred's links

John Ruggero wrote:[...] I prefer the LilyPond placement of the naturals at your arrow and don''t feel that Boosey's exceptional placement was necessary, but I do prefer the Boosey spacing of the naturals on the last chord. The LilyPond naturals are too close together there. I also prefer the Boosey overall more even spacing and better handling of the clash between the C natural and C sharp on beat 2 of the first measure, where it is not completely clear that the two notes play together in the Lilyond. In general, I think the Boosey is easier to read.

Well, these are minor settings that can be done afterward, e.g.:

(clef's not the best here, just as an example).

Anyway, I was just curious about how LP would do by default.

Pierre, the better settings made a great improvement in the spacing and appearance, and it is quite nice to read now. I do still find the note heads a bit bold for my taste, but that would change with a different font.

Thanks so much for contributing. I have been very curious abut LilyPond and would really profit from a LilyPond presence on this Forum.

Fred and Pierre, thanks for pointing me to the sites. The number and variety of the alternative fonts is impressive. I see several that might work well for me.