On 15/11/20 13:37, Graham King wrote: > I think Gould's positioning looks _slightly_ better, except at > line-beginnings where I definitely prefer lilypond's. Moreover, the position > immediately after a bar line is heavily-contested real-estate, as your > examples make clear. Therefore it would be good to retain the option to > preserve the status quo, especially where convert-ly might otherwise cause > skyline changes to existing scores.
Plus one for this. Although I'm quite happy with this MR centre-justifying over the barline. Before the bar line definitely feels wrong - I was taught to count rests by counting the bar number on the last beat: 1 2 3 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 3 etc, so yes the bar number would appear to apply to the wrong bar ... Bear in mind we put rehearsal marks (including bar number marks) centre-justified by default, so why not bar numbers. And again, having options makes things better - don't forget not everybody plays orchestral music, there's a LOT of music people might want to copy that pre-dates Gould (is ANY post-Gould music out of copyright?), and different traditions do things in different ways (much of the stuff I like playing is pre-Gould). Cheers, Wol
