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Re: many users don't know about \shape


From: Federico Bruni
Subject: Re: many users don't know about \shape
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 11:02:24 +0200


2013/5/11 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
I'm 100% for automated typesetting: it's my dream and the very reason
why i'm using LilyPond.
However, my experience (particularly with Fried project) shows that
with regard to slurs and ties, LilyPond is very far from automated
typesetting. If you want publication quality, you _have_ to tweak the
output quite heavily - would you rather do this via setting
control-points directly?  Actually, \shape is quite close to the
spirit of automated engraving, because if the layout changes slightly,
\shape modifications usually "adapt" and still produce good results.
Even with \shape, correcting ties and slurs is still the most
time-consuming task in preparing the Fried material for publication.
Quite frankly, if we didn't have \shape, i'd say that LilyPond was
incapable of handling Fried project :(

I think I missed this project, all I can find is this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-04/msg00177.html

Would you present it in the next LilyPond report? (does anybody still work on it?)


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