2009/4/3 Jonathan Kulp <jonlancek...@gmail.com>: > What's nice about Lilypond from my "composer's" point of view is that it's > gotten me back to writing music with pencil and paper instead of doing it in > Finale. I've realized for a while that in some pieces Finale was making me > lazy as a composer (and the same happens with my students). I was using the > copy-and-paste function way too much and not thinking enough about the > content of the music. With Lilypond I'm again separating composition from > typesetting, which is a good thing IMO. Last semester I bought a book of > staff paper for the first time in more than 15 years!
Absolutely, I can say the same thing for me (except that I bought a laser printer instead of staff paper) :-) Writing with pencil/paper really feels nice, and then when you have a written model, typesetting can go very fast. (I can easily typeset 5 minutes of dense orchestral music a day). 2009/4/3 David Stocker <dstoc...@thenotesetter.com>: > Notice that I don't write out each repeated chord in the manuscript. It's > understood by the editors and engravers that the "|" means simply "print the > previous chord again". It would be great if there was a shorthand for this > in LilyPond code for situations (like in many forms of popular music) an > accompaniment pattern consists of many repeated chords--perhaps something > like "<r>"--simply instructing LilyPond to reprint the previous chord. It > would be doubly useful if the command were sensitive enough to allow the > user to specify things like different rhythms or whether the chord is tied > or has different articulations attached to it, etc. on the repeated chords > (as in <c e g>4 <r>2. ~ <r>1 ). I can certainly agree with that, except that <r> is still a bit long to type and r usually implies rests. We'd better have a single special character such as &: <c e g>4 &2 ~ &1 Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
