Well, i tried to write a piano-piece with parallel music, but as some or you mentioned in the threat the code gets out of control ( in terms of readability) very quickly even if you put some tweaks into.
@the current threat regarding parallel music. I think there are only 2 options: 1) it will be difficult for graphical editors to make enhancements like what you are talking about because the nature ( or more the basic design of lilypond is to read in a textfile which is done sequentially. Take a look at some IDEs for programming which supports a Form-designer in a graphical mode where you can drag and drop buttons, combos, etc. These Form-designers have a code file ( C++, Java, whatever .. ) where any changes are written to. This works well until the user ( or the programmer ) uses ONLY the graphical interface. A lot of these designers get serious problems if the the programmer decides to enhance this "code-behind" files with code written by his own. We have the same issue here with lilypond. It has a lot more to do with a programming language then "normal" notation programs have. Building a visual designer in programs like Frescobaldi ( which is a very good software at all!!) will not be a trivial task and will take a while. 2) The second approach would be quite radical. It would be to change the core design of lilypond, with the intention to have better support of designers. Also not that trivial ;-). Cheers Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Janek Warchoł [mailto:janek.lilyp...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. September 2012 10:08 An: Strebl,Mag.,Michael (RIORE) BIG-AT-V Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Betreff: Re: piano music with lilypond Hi, On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <michael.str...@boehringer-ingelheim.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to share some thoughts about piano music with you. > [...] > > Lilypond does in my opinion ~70% perfect job, but takes too much control. > The score looks pretty beautiful at the first glance, but to make it perfekt > and complete, you would need such a lot of tweaks or even know how about how > to create scheme functions just to get more control over what lilypond does > with the output. So the effort for tweaking exceeds the effort you have in > Score by far. I agree that typesetting piano music is probably the most difficult thing to do well in Lilypond. > I am a software developer and have know how about C/C++ and Java but I’m not > willing to learn a new programming language just for the sake of music > notation. If you mean "i don't like the idea of having to create complex Scheme functions to get professional engraving results", i agree. > My impression is, that lilypond is designed for choir-, orchestral- and > chambermusic- scores, even the approach of how music is entered, shows that. You mean that music is entered sequentially, and you cannot see voices in parallel? Actually, i have an idea how to improve it. Look for "Parallel music view" thread that i will post shortly on user list. cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
