Sharing House-Styles

[wizzarts]

Hello everybody,

I was wondering why we do not share house-style to help each other.

Especially the drum notation provided by Sibelius are far away from what is common classical notation.

But also other settings like spacing or text-style could be a great benefit to those who are not that familiar to engraving rules etc.

Just an idea....


3ndy

[Kevin]

I am all for this! The default settings are okay but it would be good to make a layout individual. I have managed it to a small degree.

Has anyone else messed about with the settings?

[Ed Sharpe]

I do not use any custom house-styles. The default settings are fine for my needs.

[Joseph]

I am afraid I must acknowledge that I too am fine with the defaults.

[Deleted]

The only change I make to the default is to the bar numbers:type style, font, and borders . All else suits my needs.

Richard

[wizzarts]

I have done a lot of changes. Whenever I had to adjust something manually I entered the engravers rules and other panels to do it there to make sure that I have to do those things only once....

Here are some things in the default I had to change:

accidentals are too close to the bar-line
a2 is too high above the staff
All text-fonts set to Arno Pro
Page-margins
extra text for drum-names (in a staff)
Appearance of slurs and ties
New Instruments with german, french, italian and english names
New drum-staves with common percussion-mapping
Dictionary-entries for better control of playback
Page- and bar-numbers
Distance of staves
Priorities in magnetic layout

... and many more...

The default is really good and definately better than Finale. But when it comes to publishing they really needed to be sorted out.

On one hand house-style helps to improve the workflow so that one has not to do all kind of adjustments all over again.
On the other hand when preparing score and parts for publishers one has to fit their style.

[Kevin]

Seems like you are on a mission Andy. You are obviously well versed in the subject. Maybe you could post an example of default and your ammended house style at some later date?

[wizzarts]

I have to survive Frankfurt... when there is some time I will do so....

[Deleted]

Feb 26, 2013 19:04:11 GMT wizzarts said:

I have to survive Frankfurt... when there is some time I will do so....

Well, I would really enjoy the opportunity to survive Frankfurt. Among my many memories of that city is a two day session of extemporaneous narration and q & a session at the messegelände. That gave me a sore throat and surely tested my command of the German language. I was a big hit with a group of boys because of my earthy colloquialisms in describing the function of a pair of large tents. If you have the chance to check it out, see if the Altes Cafe Dauth Schneider is still there in Sachsenhausen, just across the Eisener Steg from the Frankfurter Dom.

Richard