Re: Issue 37 - new work

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I cooked up this musical example that shows both responses to upward
>> > and downward pressure to give you an idea of where I'm coming from.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to get this type of collision avoidance w/o a 2nd
>> > quanting pass?
>>
>> Actually, it would appear a third pass would be nice in order to put
>> sympathetic pressure on the lowest beam, decreasing the discrepancy of
>> its stems with the adjacent (highly compressed) stem set.
>
> Hmm...
>  lilypond -p 0 my_file.ly    % for quick work
>  lilypond -p 2 my_file.ly    % for a draft to print out
>  lilypond -p 9 my_file.ly    % for the final score
> ;)
>
>
> Despite the joke, this is a semi-serious suggestion that I've been
> hoping that somebody might be interested in for years.  There's a
> bunch of options that we can enable or disable to change the
> amount of processing power; it would be really nice if one (or
> more) people seriously looked into this, and provided an easy way
> to change between the "optimization" levels.

I think most of these will go unused, as very few people will know how
and when to tune them.  Having configurable settings is neat, but it's
far more important to do the right thing by default in 95% of the
cases.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen