Re: Style

[David Feuer]

On 4/4/06, Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen here:
>
> But this flies in the very face of Lilypond's objective.  The objective
> for lilypond is to have an automatic engraver that takes the music
> information and creates a beautiful engraved score.  We don't want to
> tweak output, we want to eliminate all tweaks.
>
> Rather than use the effort to develop the tweaking system as a separate
> program, lilypond would prefer to use the effort to improve the engraver
> algorithms so no tweaking is necessary.  Tweaks are (hopefully
> temporary) hacks to deal with weakness in the engraving algorithms.

1.  Different people will always want different things.
2.  The same people will want different things for different pieces,
and even for different sections of a single piece.
3.  Different publishers will always have different standards.

Any time there are several accepted notations for a single musical
idea, composers will want to be able to decide which one they use. 
Every time there are two fonts, engravers will want to choose theirs. 
Every time there is a conflict between good-looking music and
easy-to-play music, engravers will have to make a judgement.  I am
convinced that the right goal is to make the engraving algorithms so
good that tweaking is rarely necessary, but to make the tweaking
system as elegant as possible.

David Feuer