Jan-Peter Voigt wrote > Hi all, > > just a few hours away ... ;-) > Kieren already mentioned, the edition engraver is an external library. > It is part of my own toolchain, but once made its way into public, > because it fitted a question/a use case of Kieren. So I started to make > it available. Now there came Urs' OpenLilyLib infrastructure into the > arena to provide a standard API to add and load modules to the LilyPond > toolchain. > Let me explain shortly what and why the EE is: > There where several cases where I needed a full score and parts for > instruments and choir. During a smaller first project I thought, it is > quite messy to tag overrides and breaks for every different target (full > score, part). In frescobaldi one can easily jump to the code of a single > element and than add the desired override, but I wished for a tool to > write down "in measure X at moment Y" I need to shape a slur or add a > line-break or whatever. In fact I was sitting with a printout marking > elements to tweak. Now paper doesn't do point-and-click ... > Right now my time does not allow for writing down an adequate elaborate > documentation, but I try to jump in if there are questions. > And of course I am very thankful for the text Stefano Troncaro wrote > down! > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-01/msg00603.html) > Thank you for bringing this up again - I have to admit that I lost the > track to place store into the Wiki of the GitHub-page. > > The EE uses two coordinates to identify when and where to tweak > something. First there is the time noted with measure and moment. The > second part identifies the context, where the tweak is to be applied. > Every modification is marked with an edition-tag to separate different > targets. > > \version "2.19.82" > % load OpenLilyLib > \include "oll-core/package.ily" > % load edition-engraver package > \loadPackage edition-engraver > > % activate a target/edition "test" - this might also be "fullscore" or > "violinI" or whatever > \addEdition test > > % add an override in measure 1 at the second quarter (it counts from > zero, so it is 1 quarters to move from the beginning of measure 2) > % apply the override to the second Voice context with edition-id > 'sing.with.bach.along' > \editionMod test 1 1/4 sing.with.bach.along.Voice.B \once \override > NoteHead.color = #red > > % add/consist the edition-engraver to the desired Context-types > \consistToContexts #edition-engraver Score.Staff.Voice > > % create a Staff with an editionID > \new Staff \with {\editionID ##f sing.with.bach.along } > << { bes'4 a' c'' b' } \\ { es'4 e' f' fis' } >> > > I can't speak for the average user because I made it the way *I* think > about all this stuff. > And yes, there is absolutely need for documentation. > > @Marten: I think if you understand the basic concept and got familiar > with the commands it can be useful even for small scores like Urs > already wrote. Of course I am used to using the EE so my opinion is > biased, but I think it is useful for a lot of (not all) tasks. > > HTH > Jan-Peter > > Am 13.11.18 um 08:30 schrieb
> m.tarenskeen@ > : >> Hi, >> I, like the original poster, was also intrigued, by people's >> enthusiastic comments about the power of OpenLilyLib and the Edition >> Engraver. And like the O.P. I never really got started. >> I guess the question is: How complex a LilyPonds score has to be >> before EE really starts making things easier instead of just adding >> more difficulties? >> >> MT >> >> Verzonden vanaf mijn Huawei mobiele telefoon >> >> >> -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- >> Onderwerp: Re: Edition Engraver in 2.19 >> Van: Kieren MacMillan >> Aan: Reggie >> Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List >> >> >> Hi Reggie, >> >> > is that all the documentation for such a powerful tweak tool in >> lilyPond? >> >> Yes, unfortunately. >> And, to be accurate, it’s not "in" Lilypond — it’s a separate >> library. >> >> > How do new users learn this tool and all its possibilites? >> >> I learned by looking at the examples, trial and error, and asking >> Jan-Peter (the author) every now and then. =) >> >> Cheers, >> Kieren. >> ________________________________ >> >> Kieren MacMillan, composer >> ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info >> ‣ email: > info@ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> > lilypond-user@ >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> > lilypond-user@ >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user \loadPackage edition-engraver always fails. I give up. I downloaded and tried to install and cannot get anything to work. How do you install engraver from stage one? https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver I followed the github wiki but nothing. -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
