Re: Lilypond?

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:17:16 -0700, John Rethorst wrote:

In article <IldBi.18978$Zk5.6200@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Raleigh Arnold <dra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Encore among others is totally unacceptable because the programmers didn't
know the correct placement of dots in dotted notes.

This is controversial. Practice in the common period, spanning 400 years and a
number of countries, will vary.

Not in any sense which supports their dumb mistake. Dots were simply
placed arbitrarily after the note head (or stem!) There never was a usage
as stupid as placing the dot in the space above a line note head in all
cases without exception. When there are two parts on one stave and the
stem is down, the dot should be in the space *below*. You will find this
in every manual with any credibility at all, provided that they treat of
more than one part on one stave at all, and you will find it in
subsequent editions of Gardner Read.

There is *no* controversy. See published works. If you have had it
done wrong for you in the past, I'm happy to set you straight, and you
need to beat bumps on your typesetters.

The only really authoritative book I know of in English is long out of
print, and it was not by an academic. Gardner Read is God in
Acadame. Not my fault. daveA

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