I'm happy to finally present my latest project:
OrchestralLily
A package for lilypond to easily create orchestral scores
Version 0.01
http://wiki.kainhofer.com/lilypond/orchestallily
If you are using Lilypond to write large orchestral scores, with individual
scores for each instrument or instrument group, you have certainly run into
the problem that the (usually quite complex) structure of each movement with
lots of staff groups is the same, and you copy'n'paste Score and Staff
definitions of exactly the same structure all over the place. Additionally,
you have to manually track which instruments play in a movement and which do
not.
This is exactly the point, which OrchestralLily tries to solve:
You define a staff hierarchy (or multiple staff group hierarchies) once, and
OrchestralLily will take care of correctly creating the staves or staff
groups. You can concentrate on writing the music instead of the the
structure.
A very simple example can be found in the documentation:
http://wiki.kainhofer.com/lilypond/orchestallily#a_simple_examplesoprano_solo_and_violoncello
Currently, this is the very first preview release with probably several bugs
(although I have to say that it works really well in my two large scores. For
example, it saved me ~7000 lines of manual staff and score definitions in my
score of Schubert's Stabat mater with 12 parts, 23 instruments and a total of
35 different scores: full scores, vocal score, choral score, individual
instrument scores, scores for groups of instruments...).
Proper support for cue notes (with clef and cue instrument name, but
unfortunately without lyrics attached) is also included.
I hope you'll like it and find it useful!
Cheers,
Reinhold
PS: Two things that are not yet implemented but definitely planned are:
-) Staves with multiple voices (using \voiceOne, \voiceTwo), possibly with
lyrics attached. Currently, you'll still have to define those staves
manually.
-) Support for transposing instruments. You'd define the music in sounding
pitch, but the displayed staff would be automatically transposed to the
defined key. Thus, all cue notes will also be correct automatically.
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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
* K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
* Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/
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