-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Samstag, 11. April 2009 05:29:17 Graham Percival wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:01:28AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer > > wrote: > > I recently discovered that for full scores, it's easiest to > > write things like the preface in Latex and then merge together > > the PDFs. > > I used to do things that way, but I was recently thinking about > moving everything into LilyPond. Among other reasons, it would > let people on windows compile my scores, too. > > What problems did you experience with lilypond text typesetting?
Here's a (probably incomplete) list of things that come to my mind: - -) No 2-column text with automatic floating between columns and pages - -) No hyphenation - -) Settings headers/footers per page is next-to-impossible (e.g. I want the preface numbered i/ii/iii/..., and then the score numbered 1/2/3, where there is no page number on the first page, but instead a copyright notice in the footer... The problem is that the page number of the first score page varies from score to score). - -) No nice tables (with borders, proper alignment etc). - -) No background color for the title page - -) I want a different sans-serif font for the title page - -) Bibliography database with bibtex, automatic citation labels - -) Lilypond does not write a pdf-TOC to the file (so that the individual movements appear in acroread's contents pane). - -) At least the preface and the critical notes will work and look exactly the same if I decide to revise the edition in 5 or 10 years. Advantage of Lilypond: - -) Easy to insert dynamic markings in the text (crucial for the critical notes). - -) TOC is easier - -) wider font for headings/title page Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ4dNsTqjEwhXvPN0RAvzyAKCne0zkQNN7KHHfI4BufmQZ0/d8TgCeI23k USQP453xcFXg8Gmy8lLPYP4= =usJR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
