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Thanks, tisimst. More questions:

Do you proof from a printed copy, marking it in pencil in the traditional way?

Do you make a separate pass through the score for each item?

And does anyone use playback as part of proofing?

I would be very interested to know how Notatio members handle proofreading. Do you have a system? And publishers seem to exhibit various levels of accuracy. Why, for example, are Henle and G. Schirmer editions (at least the old ones) so accurate and yet Wiener Urtext and Durand less so? Does anyone ...

So, I would be very interested to know how Notatio members handle proofreading and will start another thread on the topic.

A subject that hasn't yet come up at Notatio is proofreading practice. I have always noticed differences in accuracy between the different publishers, which doesn't always correlate with their excellence otherwise. For example, the older G. Schirmer and Henle publications are remarkably accurate, wh...

With regard to this particular situation I totally agree with you that lining up layer two in the upper staff and the notes in the left hand is much better. I am glad that we see eye to eye on this one! Yet most editions go the other way, including the German first edition, which is inconsistent. I...

In Chopin's infamous (because of the difficulty) Etude op. 10 no. 2, there is a very interesting case of alignment involving seconds. Here is the French 1st edition, which, along with the MS, is generally the most important primary source for Chopin's music: Note that the LH on beats 3 and 4 of meas...

Knut, I'm glad I was clearer this time and you could see the illusion better. As you said, the stems attract attention, and this leads the eye along a strange path and away from the note heads. I agree that if one corrects for it, a sort of entasis, it should be very slight. I have always done such ...

To me, the unedited beats in the last example look aligned (more so than in the first example) Intriguing. For me, the effect is greater as the staves approach each other, possibly because angle between the stems becomes greater. What is also interesting, is that I see the illusion only in case A o...

Your fonts are always beautiful, Knut, and these are no exception. I am pretty sure that the alphabetic fonts would work well, but would need to see the numerical font in action to be able to judge it in a music context. Since you are requesting ideas, I would like to see the special symbols used in...

This is very strange, as it gives me the exact opposite impression. The compensated beats now look clearly misaligned to me. Oops. I thought you meant that the perfectly aligned ones at A would look better if the staves were closer together. To me they look worse. As far the compensated ones at C, ...