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For me, the font is too much of a dead giveaway not to influence everything else I see from there. I don't know that I've seen a score in Opus but that was done in Finale. Although it is possible to use Opus in Finale, I suspect you meant "done in Sibelius". Or did you mean "score in...

The only thing I know for sure that I would never do, is to break the slur for any element whatsoever. Slurs passing between stacked piano fingering seems rather unnecessary, though. Would you include other staff objects in this? For example, if a tie/slur cut right through a time-signature/key-sig...

Thanks so much, tisimst. I must admit that I have trouble imagining how I would shape slurs without a graphical interface! But I understand that there is one for LilyPond. Is that what you use? Or does this just become second nature? Well, the long of the short is that there isn't a *true* GUI for ...

tisimst, would those default slurs be adjustable in LilyPond? Most definitely! LilyPond provides numerous mechanisms for customizing the look of ties and slurs, and on multiple levels. It doesn't (yet) support more or less than the four standard control points. Here are some of the ways you can cus...

Here are the default LilyPond slurs of varying system-widths for these two measures:

Just to clear things up, the only font currently that actually supports the -XX design sizes is Emmentaler. In other words, at the time of this writing, each of the Sebastiano-XX fonts are identical in every way (except for the embedded subtables, but that's irrelevant outside of their usage in Lily...

I wouldn't get too much in rut: When the printing press was invented, many, MANY people complained of the same thing. People ascribed what was the best achievement of book publishing to the monks and scribes that made books. The first typeface was barely legible compared to the scribes who did it f...

Good question. Why didn't they? Because there was a time when craftsmanship was highly regarded under the hands of a master engraver. It was an art form in an of itself. Not so much any more. Anybody and their dog can do it now. You don't have to be a master engraver/artist because many people just ...

It's called "out-sourcing" to cheap and "good-enough" labor. Really sad, but true. An unfortunate side-defect of exactly what you described--that,in general, people are perfectly fine with non-professional quality scores.

It does, but not externally. All music fonts need to be compiled into the program. The intent there by the developers is to ensure the ability to share without worrying about it having the fonts used.