Re: default rest size (whole and half)

[Mats Bengtsson]

As has been noted in some discussion on the email lists,
the fonts in LilyPond are generally on the heavy side,
compared to most other typesetting software. However,
the main hackers have deliberately choosen these font
dimensions, inspired by hand engraved music by publishers
such as Baerenreiter.
If you compare
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Rests#Rests
and
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Rests.html#Rests
you will see that the rest layout in LilyPond hasn't changed
for a long time.

  /Mats

Scott Miller wrote:

> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=322
>
> Thanks,
> Here is an example. I recently made a part for a player who commented
> that the whole and half rests looked much to large compared to
> everything else on the page. I'm not sure if this is a just matter of
> personal preference, and therefore a non-issue? I'm curious to get
> feedback on this issue. Thanks for your help,
>
> Scott
>
> On 2/27/07, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Scott Miller wrote:
> > >   Hi, the default whole and half rest size is much too large, using
> > > Lilypond 2.11.19. For each whole or half rest, I have resorted to
> > > putting in "\set fontSize = #-2.5" before the rest.  Could this be
> > > changed for a future release? Thanks all,
> >
> > Could you create a minimal example of this?
> > http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/bugs
> >
> > If you could create a png with an earlier version of lilypond to
> > demonstrate the difference, that would be great.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
>
>
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