2011/3/1 tobias bora <tobias.b...@gmail.com>: > When I say "How can we wreathe crescendo ?" I would like to have not many > little horizontal lines but two diagonals line.
We all desire this, but it's impossible. Let me explain. Your computer display consists of a rectangular matrix of pixels. Laser printers also dump to a paper a fine grain, rectangular matrix of black dots. Hairpins and other diagonal lines could be diagonal in concept, but they need to be rendered to a screen or onto a paper for you to be able of seeing it. LilyPond output to PS/PDF is vectorial, i.e. it keeps the 'concept' of a diagonal line, but your output device has to convert those vectorial commands to the dot matrix of said device. Many tricks can be applied to achieve this: antialias (gray dots at borders) on screen, RET on laser printers and variable-size ink drops on inkjet printers. Above all, low-resolution output devices ruin all this effort, for example, a monochrome small-sized gif image. That's why you see many little horizontal lines instead of diagonals. What you can do to smooth diagonal lines (and circles, etc) is: a) use a high-resolution output device. The bigger the image, the better. b) never use monochrome gif images (no antialias, no gray dots), use grayscale with a good bit depth. Printed material is commonly made with very high-resolution renderers. I don't know exactly: ten thousand dots per inch? Maybe not that much, but high enough so you can not see the 'stairs'. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
