Hi Curt, Thank you so much for doing this! As someone who dabbled in film scoring pre-Lilypond (and, in fact, before Sibelius was on anything but RISC OS), and wants to get back into it in Lilypond, this is all very interesting information.
> The score was originally prepared (in Sibelius) a few years ago, under the > tutelage of a professional hollywood film composer, Hummie Mann If you're ever communicating with him again, tell him I love his work (especially "Year of the Comet"). > Appended below is part of one of the README's - the "unexpected difficulties" > I had with lilypond, as in the areas that didn't seem to work easily right > away. (Note that I started this re-notation project as a complete lilypond > beginner.) A big one here is "giant time signatures", which are common in > film scores but don't seem to have a graceful solution in lilypond. Please > note that these are just the (minor) complaints, and that overall I was > *extremely* happy with the experience and output. I did this all in eclipse > (elysium) on a 15" MacBook Pro and loved the "coding" experience. As part of my "template/stylesheet" project, perhaps I'll put together templates and functions for some (or all) of these difficulties… Cheers, Kieren. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
