2013/12/7 Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net>: > On 07/12/13 19:18, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >> Have you looked at "Eja Mater awful Finale.pdf"? Do you consider the >> issues marked in red minor? They actually make it very difficult to >> sing the rhythm correctly! > > > That one example in bar 69 is very "ouch", but it's the kind of problem that > would be an issue for sightreading only -- you'd fix it and move on.
My experience says otherwise (maybe because my choir is not professional): we continued to sing this moment badly for the next 5 years. > I have to say that I do wonder if that was user error, though -- because I > never came up with such a catastrophic misalignment when I was using Finale. I have seen it about 10 times already, in scores coming from different people. I can send you more examples in private. > At a guess, perhaps caused by the user entering more notes than could fit in > the bar, then deleting some of them, or otherwise correcting note lengths? No idea. > The one in bar 80 doesn't strike me as much of an issue. An irritation but > not in any way a serious problem, because it isn't out of sync with anything > else horizontally. I was far more concerned about the placement of the dots > on the dotted 8ths, because that _did_ seem like something that could jar > the reading of the single line parts, even when you "know" the rhythm. > > I don't mean to dismiss your concerns here, but I think that these problems > are small fry in the scale of the kinds of illegibility or ambiguity or > simply reading difficulty that there can be in parts put in front of > musicians. You probably haven't seen some of the hand-written parts (from > reputable publishers!) that I have ... :-) Well, if we're speaking of hand-written stuff, then yes. But as far as the "engraved" output from notation software, i havent' seen much worse problems. >> Do you have a spare expert Finale user? Because the problem is that >> on the *LilyPond* mailing list it's hard to find expert Finale users. >> We'd have to hire someone, and that costs money. > > No, but I imagine that if you went on the Finale mailing list and said, > "Hey, we're trying out this challenge as part of a drive to test and improve > our usability, anyone up for it?" you'd get some volunteers. You don't need > a super-hot-whizzkid-who-works-for-Bärenreiter, you just need someone who is > competent and capable and knows their way around the software. ok, sounds reasonable. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user