On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:45:20PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -) Third, Recordare claims copyright on the typesetting of those MusicXML > files, so we can't simply copy them into our build tree for testing purposes > (Michael Good, the author of the MusicXML spec wrote me last year that if I > ask them and tell them on which website the files would be placed, they would > grant us permission, but due to the open source nature of LilyPond, I doubt > that we can really fulfill this
What a jerk! No, of course we can't allow that. How does he expect his format to gain acceptance if he doesn't supply test files under a permissive license?! I mean, they're *language tests*. Pay a music student for 8 hours to typeset some public domain music, then release the whole thing as public domain. For a company as big as Finale, I can't believe that they couldn't afford to do that. > Even worse, one has to decide to either assign those > markups and dynamics to only one voice present in the staff (with the > consequence that you will not be able to split multiple voices into multiple > staves later on without losing the dynamics for the second voice) or to > assign them to both voices and live with the duplication that you currently > see. Could you add a voice containing nothing but spacer rests, and assign all marks to that voice? I'm not certain that would be any better in the long run, though. :( Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
