On 6/1/20, Rutger Hofman <rut...@cs.vu.nl> wrote: > And I could contribute a bit on techniques to have >2 voices per staff, > rhythmically homophonic or rhythmically polyphonic, especially in the > context of divisi staves.
That would certainly be interesting. As you can see in the patch I posted earlier in this thread, I’ve just been adding some stuff to the Notation Reference: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/91/diffs?view=parallel There’s no “orchestral music” subsection in NR 2, like there is for guitar music, percussion etc.; I don’t think it would be wise to have one because it’s linked with numerous other sections (I could be convinced otherwise, but I’m really not sure how there’s a reasonable argument to be made here). What I’ve been doing instead is use NR 2.1.6.1 (“References for opera and stage musicals” which is the closest we have to an Orchestra subsection, and I added a link to that at the very top of NR section 2 “Specialist notation”. The other main area where we can document stuff is, obviously, NR 1.6.3 “Writing parts” (that’s where I’ve added a new subsection about \compressMMRests a few months ago). And NR 1.6.2.3 “Hiding staves”, which is what this patch addresses (on top of recent additions by Jean Abou Samra). If you have other ideas that fit well with our current structure and guidelines, don’t hesitate to chip in. > What would be the best venue for this? Lilypond docs? User list? Scores > of Beauty? If it gets into the Lilypond docs, it is there to "stay > forever" which would be nice. Sure; you’d need to take into account the most recent version though, and not what you can find on lilypond.org -- actually, I’ve just uploaded a recent doc build (that includes my patch about divisi staves) on http://lilydoc.villenave.net/Documentation/notation-big-page.html in case you want to check it out. Now, depending on what you have in mind, a blog entry might be preferable, particularly to show off large, beautiful examples. (Jean wanted a Berlioz fragment in the NR; that’s about the maximum we can afford, and even then its source code is not quoted verbatim.) On that note: > One elaborate example of my experiences is found in the score and parts > of "3 Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck" by Alban Berg, see > https://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban) I appreciate that you’re making available your source code, but you could simply embed it within the PDF files (LilyPond can do that now!). See for example https://imslp.org/wiki/Oboe_Concerto_No.1_in_E-flat_major_(Herschel%2C_William) (btw, I generally prefer publishing all individual parts as a single PDF; people can then print whatever they want within it, but it makes it *much* easier for ensembles out there in my experience, particularly when IMSLP starts imposing a 15-second delay for all downloads.) Cheers, -- V.
