Hi there, I indeed worked on a book containing a lot of church songs in several different kinds of notation. Varying from a full score with choir and organ, which wasn't an issue at all, to a setting with long notes on each of which a long sentence had to be sung, which seemed impossible until I discovered that it could be done by using an 'invisible' melody for the lyrics.
I wonder, was it the Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap that needs the book? I worked on one of their books before...... with lilypond. Regards, Wilco. On Thu, April 9, 2009 14:08, Morten Borchorst wrote: > You might want to contact Wilco van den Tol. > > As far as I remember he worked out a project like this a few years ago. > > > Greetings > > Morten > > > > Christ van Willegen skrev: >> ...although we all are in 'the real world' (or at least think we are :-) >> ) >> >> Recently, I was attending a speech by one of the leading people being >> busy with compiling a new book of church songs for The Netherlands (or >> at least the Calvinist/Lutheran part of it). When the speech was >> finished I asked him if it was appropriate to point him to software >> that does music engraving. He said that it was and took out paper and >> a pen. When I dropped the name Lilypond he put away paper and pen. And >> told me that they were already looking into using Lilypond... >> >> So, here's a serious example of the usage of Lilypond in the real world. >> >> I was wondering if perhaps 'we' were able to help him, by: >> - Engraving songs for publishing, making them 'as good as possible'; >> - Extending Lilypond to (more easily?) accomodate engraving of church >> music. Two examples that I can think of are: Setting rests at the end >> of a system, and making music centered and not left aligned; >> - Any other advice/techniques/additions/modifications we can think of. >> >> Are there any people out there that would be willing to help make this >> possible? Perhaps some Lilypond funding could be possible (it is, >> after all, a commercial undertaking), and at least it can be shown >> that Lilypond is ready for world usage. >> >> Christ van Willegen >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> >> > > -- Wilco van den Tol, Sinnigvelderstraat 181 1382 ET, Weesp The Netherlands +31(0)6 209 627 01 mail : wvd...@xs4all.nl msn messenger : toete...@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
