NOTATIO

It's a font: Goudy Initials. Well, yes, I could have matched the paper size, and staff size, and various other details. I haven't done ligatures, either. Some of the glyphs in my font don't really match. I didn't really plan to make a facsimile, but just a little bit of fun of how to approach that s...

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...