Re: Engraved 'look'

[Cameron Horsburgh]

Darius Blasband wrote:
> As much as I think that old scores must be used as source of inspiration
> for balance, aesthetics,
> etc., I think that reproducing their defects for the sake of
> old-fashioned look  would be odd.
> Softening corners is ok. But imperfections are not warm. They are just
> that: imperfections.
> 
> Darius.
> 
> Leo Trottier wrote:
> 
>> Apologies if this has already been debated/discussed extensively, but ...
>>
>> .. in my experience with (beautiful) Barenreiter editions a quality
>> that I feel
>> most striking is the 'old-fashioned' look  -- there are seldom razor
>> sharp
>> staff-lines (as tend to be produced by laser printers).  Instead, it
>> seems,
>> minute variations ('imperfections') in print add a warmth ... and it's
>> this
>> warmth that I feel is most lacking in lilypond output. 
>> Wouldn't it be fairly easy add an 'soft/irregular edge' command to the
>> typesetting system?
>>
>> Best,
>> Leo
>>
>> PS I don't request this as a feature that I want personally so much as
>> I think
>> it would be one that could greatly enrich the (already superb) feel of
>> lilypond
>> output.
>>
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I disagree--I'd like to have an option to turn imperfect edges on.

The difficult part would be devising the algorithm to produce it. The
imperfections would have to be perfect, so to speak. Just adding noise
somehow probably wouldn't do what's being asked for.

Cameron