> Early 19th century engravings are hardly references to go by (18th
> century manuscripts can also look nice but are for a variety of good
> reasons quite far from current engraving best-practices),
Yes, of course, and...
> and unless we're not looking at the same pictures, the conclusions
> one draws from the Rachmaninoff examples [...]
... I don't say that LilyPond works correctly. I mainly reacted to
your claim that the recommendation by Gould and Ross for drawing beams
is 'traditional', which is not the case IMHO. Engraving before 1945
used less stem dampening.
Werner
