Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3295 in lilypond: Change appearance of clef octavation

[lilypond]

Comment #5 on issue 3295 by address@hidden: Change appearance of  
clef octavation
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3295

On 2013/04/04 10:42:12, dak wrote:
> At any rate, I don't know of any situation where the octavation
> of a clef would change except between movements, so the necessity
> for a strong imprint seems low.

Well, some time ago i had typeset my friend's piece for electric guitar duo  
+ bass, and while most of the music sat comfortably on the "guitar clef"  
(i.e. G_8), for the solo passage i used untransposed clef (the solo is  
really high, and also its a bit too long to use an ottava spanner).  Maybe  
that wasn't a wise choice, but when i played from it i liked it.

Anyway, i think that changing the appearance to something heavier is a  
matter of consistency with our style.  LilyPond was designed with the old  
hand engraving looks in mind; notice that other elements are much heavier  
than octavation number - take a look at an image with more context:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jv21jqok5efaiig/with-context-current.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2i4dukanejktwe/with-context-suggested.png

I think that the best option would be to use a semibold font, but we don't  
have that option with Century schoolbook.  At any rate, i think that we  
should at least either increase the fontsize from -4 to -3, or make the  
number bold (apart from making it roman, which seems to have more dignity  
to my eyes).

Also, keep in mind that above examples are at font-size 20.  At smaller  
font-sizes clef and other glyphs will be even heavier.

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