#186 tenuto-accent looks ugly (accent too big)

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Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: gpermus@gmail.com

The accent looks too big in this case. It would be nice if we had a few "ligatures" – instead of typesetting an accent and a legato sign, we placed a single tenuto-accent symbol (with better relative sizes).

Alternatively, we could just globally reduce the size of accents or increase the length of tenuto.

No, I don't have scans to back this up.

#(set-global-staff-size 26)
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Originally posted by: v.villenave

(Reproduced with 2.11.47) I kinda like it this way though.

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Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com

Here is the output of 2.15.11

I don't think it looks too big at all.

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Originally posted by: percival.music.ca@gmail.com

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Originally posted by: PhilEHol...@googlemail.com

According to Gould, LilyPond's accents are definitely too wide.  In her book, the ratio between the accent and the tenuto is about 1.25; Lily is over 1.5; for reference, Sibelius is narrower than Gould.

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Originally posted by: lemzw...@googlemail.com

The Gould example is very artificial and thus ugly, it doesn't reflect the German typographic tradition IMHO.  However, I agree that the accent could be *slightly* smaller horizontally.

On the other hand, I think that the tenuto line in LilyPond is often vertically too close to the note head, which irritates me more than a too large accent glyph...