Re: [oll-user] [Challenges] Engraving challenge

[Urs L. <ul...@op...>]

Am 10.01.2014 11:33, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> I've started to look at the engraving challenge, and one thing that I think
> makes this not the best challenge: it looks like it's just a page from a
> piece, rather than the piece itself.  As a result, there's no title
> information, etc., and not even a time signature.  I presume it's 4/4 and
> will use this, but without messing around that will put one extraneous
> element on the output from Sibelius: i.e. a time signature.

You're right, it's only one page, because a whole piece would definitely 
be too much.
With regards to the titles I could simply add the titling from the first 
page and include that in the assignment. (Yes, I think the handling of 
titles etc. is also an interesting part).

>
> The other issue is that this is clearly an odd piece of music - the beaming
> patterns are very atypical, and any music typesetting program with require
> substantial hacking to set this.

This is intentional - I would like to see how each program performs with 
extreme tasks.
But we can discuss if this really is a good idea for a first challenge. 
I'd like to hear more opinions on this.

> Some of the crossing notes are not really
> all that easy to read - see the 2nd beat of bar 3, for example.

I don't really understand what you mean. Please narrow it down some more.

> And I
> assume there's lots of unmarked triplets all over the place?

Yes, but that's pretty standard in this kind of music IMO.

> Would it not
> be better to start with a piece that follows the recommendations of the
> typesetting manuals?

As said, I'd like to have more opinions.
But in any case this is only an issue for the strange beaming, 
everything else seems appropriate for the task in my eyes.

Urs

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