Re: Running trills are jagged

[Mats Bengtsson]

Dylan & Paula Nicholson wrote:
> Lilypond draws running trills by using a series of "r" glyphs from the feta 
> font.
> But these are jagged, like a mordent.  On all the scores I have access to,
> trill lines are wavy/sinusoidal.
> Is there a way of getting wavier trill lines?

I leave it to the Postscript hackers on the mailing list to define a
sinusoidal line type.

> Also, is there a way to get lilypond output at "actual size" (100%) 
> magnification in Acrobat Reader to look good?  Certainly the default scaling it uses is 
> pretty ugly.  At least on my machine, staff lines need to be exactly 5.25 points apart to 
> get even spacing and even staff line widths (it seems Reader uses 4 pixels for 3 points).

I guess this depends on what Acrobat version you use and on what
platform. Also, I think recent versions of Acrobat have lots of
different settings that affect the screen output. Have you tried
to change any of these?

   /Mats

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