Richard Shann wrote:
> I occurred to me when I saw this that you almost certainly spent more
> time trying to convert from your original than creating afresh with
> Denemo. Attached is my re-setting of your piece using Denemo. It took
> 16mins 12 seconds to create this with Denemo (I had your lyrics
> ready-prepared to paste in so that save some time). I can't imagine you
> would spend less time cleaning up and import of MusicXML (a hopelessly
> ambiguous, rag-tag format).
> OTOH Denemo does generate a certain amount of general-purpose crud,
> below is a version with it edited out somewhat.
> Two things - I've used the generic repeat stuff here, rather than the
> nicer-to-read \repeat ...\alternative ... stuff.
> And I've made the repeat structure follow the typesetting norms - whole
> measure rests and repeat with upbeat.
I actually use Frescobaldi, and it's taken a while to come up
to speed. I'd need a good reason for another interface.
Eventually, between the snippet:
"Volta text markup using repeatCommands"
and your example I got there.
I eventually used:
voltaText = \markup { 1. 3. 5. } before the notes block
\set Score.repeatCommands = #(list (list 'volta voltaText )
r2.
\set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f) (volta "2. 4.") end-repeat)
r2. | % 31
% several bars deleted for brevity
g4 r2 | % 44
\set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f))
\bar "|."
The problem that I missed, which I will mention as a trap for newbies
such as myself, was that xml2ly does some truly *evil* things with importing
the chord information. This interacts in weird and wonderful ways with
the melody information.
Typically when I encode chords it looks like:
TuneChords = \chordmode {
s8 g2.*4 c1 d8*15 g8*27 c8*10 d2.*2 c g2. b e4*8:m a8*7
d8*19 e2.*2:m d e:m d e:m d g2.*2
}
with
\context ChordNames = "PartPOneVoiceOneChords" \TuneChords
in the score block.
I'm probably not doing this optimally, but I get results that I can
live with.
The XML import chords use the s code a lot and often have multiple
repeat volte -- I generally just delete the chords and start again.
You're right about the XML being messy, but I had a bunch of tunes
already in MuseScore and I find that it mostly saves time to import
rather than starting from scratch. The MuseScore version of this
tune (Bojangles) was not completely correct, so I was behind from the
start.
Thanks for your assistance,
-Don
--
Don Gingrich
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