Re: Hello and question about convertors

2007-11-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I have a ex-colleague who actually converted the entire RISM to LilyPond for fun & research a couple of years back. AFAICR there were some copyright concerns (the RISM collection being restricted in some form), which motivated him not make his work public. 2007/11/6, Chad Thatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Hello and question about convertors

2007-11-06 Thread Chad Thatcher
Hello all. I am working for the British Library on the RISM project (RĂ©pertoire International des Sources Musicales) which is cataloguing all musical manuscripts from earliest times to about 1800. It is a public resource - no subscriptions or anything like that. It is already available i

Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond

2007-11-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/11/6, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > > AFAIK there is no limitation to the number of flags you can have on > > beamed notes, > > For unbeamed notes, we have to draw the line somewhere, > > Why are beamed and unbeamed notes tr

Beethoven (Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond)

2007-11-06 Thread Paco Vila
El Tue, 06 de Nov de 2007, a las 11:51:47AM -0800, Graham Percival dijo: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >> I simply don't see any compelling technical reason to not allow durations >> shorter than 64th (except for notation style, but then lilypond should >> disallow beamed notes, too). If anybody h

Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond

2007-11-06 Thread Graham Percival
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: I simply don't see any compelling technical reason to not allow durations shorter than 64th (except for notation style, but then lilypond should disallow beamed notes, too). OTOH, I don't see any compelling musical reason to allow durations shorter than 64. :) GDP

Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond

2007-11-06 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > AFAIK there is no limitation to the number of flags you can have on > beamed notes, > For unbeamed notes, we have to draw the line somewhere, Why are beamed and unbeamed notes treated differe

Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond

2007-11-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007/10/19, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey, I'm not going to argue that we _should_ support 128. If somebody > official (ie Han-Wen, Jan, or Joe) says "we only guarantee up to 64", > then we'll happily update the docs to only discuss such durations. If > users discover an undocumente