Re: Optimising output for screen.

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Phil Burfitt" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Optimising output for screen.


> > Graham Percival wrote ....
> > PS if you want a hint, one of those discussions was in 2007.
>
> Graham, Thanks for the pointer..had a chuckle with the continued 
> discussion 2 years later. Pity the solution was never 
> accepted/implemented, probably not a very important issue then, but I 
> believe it will be in a few years to come if we still want 'beautiful' 
> output.

I didn't read this as arriving at a solution.

> > Kaz Kylheku wrote ....
> > In fact, Lilypond's output doesn't have a resolution. It is vector
> > graphics. The music symbols you are seeing are drawn using Bezier
> > curves and lines.
>
> A line must have a starting point, an ending point or length, and a 
> thickness at least. Whether those attributes are expressed in pixels, 
> inches, mm or whatnots - they are still a form of resolution.

Not at all.  It would be possible to express a line width as .111111111111 
etc mm.  Eventually you hit the computer's limits on numerical resolution, 
but this is far better than display resolution.

> If I want a horizontal line 10 inches long and 1/100th inch thick, I'm 
> going to have problems displaying it on 96dpi screen if I want those 
> dimensions respected. It's a problem of resolution.

Exactly.  And until screen resolutions improve, you're never going to get 
the on screen display as good as the printed version.

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Phil Holmes