On Thursday 08 January 2009, Yogi wrote: > I am currently researching to build a library of LilyPond files for > praise/worship songs. While musical notation is great for musicians, the same > can't be said for the local non-musical churchgoers here, who are somewhat more > accustomed to reading numbered musical notation. > > Here's the article, if you don't know what I'm talking about > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_musical_notation > > So I'm wondering if LilyPond can support such notation and render it alongside a > musical notation, or on its own, without major changes in the input files. I've > done a little Googling and found no such program yet, but if anyone can point me > to the right direction, please do so :)
I used a very similar notation for ten hole harmonica tablature because it can be written very fast. I finally abandoned it in favor of the system you can see on my web site. The problem as I saw it was that the dashes don't go anywhere. They are like a short cut to nothing. You could use numbers for notes and put the time values on a single line staff. If you could get your parishioners to read the time on the line, weaning them from the numbers would be much easier. Regardless of the cultural context, basing notation for singers on notation developed for a stringed instrument is a very old bad idea that has led most world musical cultures, ancient and modern, to a dead end. Regards, daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html :::: You can play the cards you're dealt, or improve your hand with DGT. Very easy guitar music, solos, duets, exercises, etc. dratrapvi...@openguitar.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
