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Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing
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Janek Warchoł |
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Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing |
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Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:40:51 +0100 |
2013/11/26 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> When finishing a LilyPond score to publication quality there is quite a lot
> of tweaking involved - as you can see from Janek's recent posts on
> lilypondblog.org. And this tweaking makes the engraving very specific,
> actually it's only valid for a specific page layout and even a specific
> LilyPond version.
Fortunately my recent improvements to \shape (in particular polar
coordinates) should make slur tweaks much less specific.
2013/11/26 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Of course, that is sobering: if it takes more time to get from
> LilyPond's 95% initial typesetting quality to the 99% quality one wants
> for publishing than it takes for some WYSIWYG's initial 80%, then we
> have a problem.
I'd say that the effort is similar in both cases. This is generally
what i had in mind when i wrote this post:
http://lilypondblog.org/2013/08/is-lilypond-good-enough-followup-with-graphs/
> For that reason, I consider much of the time spent on tweaking
> and tweaking tools a waste of lifetime better spent on trying to get the
> automatisms right. Of course, that option is harder and requires
> different resources. But it only needs to be done once.
Well, the most important problem is that usually you have a deadline
for finishing a project, and improving LilyPond takes two or more
orders of magnitude longer than tweaking - even _if you have_ the
skills necessary for improving LilyPond...
Janek
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, (continued)
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/11/26
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, Janek Warchoł, 2013/11/26
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, Urs Liska, 2013/11/26
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, David Kastrup, 2013/11/26
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, Janek Warchoł, 2013/11/26
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, Noeck, 2013/11/26
- Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing, Janek Warchoł, 2013/11/27
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