Re: Jazz notation

[Carl Youngblood]

(sorry Eric, didn't post on-list the first time)

Thanks for your response Eric.  I am willing to admit that the 
particular examples I found were not very good.  I couldn't find many 
on the web so I just did a quick Google search.  Having seen many 
professionally-published jazz scores and charts in the music education 
industry, I think that it is a general practice to use jazz fonts for 
jazz.  Not everyone does it, but a lot of people do.  At least, enough 
people do it that many notation software packages offer the option.  I 
have no trouble reading it.  It is no more difficult to read than 
standard notation, and a lot of people (myself included) think it looks 
more "hip" for jazz.

Whether or not some people prefer to avoid it, and regardless of 
whether the examples I showed were not particularly good examples of 
it, I think it would be a valuable addition to lilypond.  In fact, it 
would just do more to demonstrate lilypond's superiority if it did it a 
lot better than the other options out there.

Thanks,

Carl

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