Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/2/11, Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - If I'm reading this correctly, this is all a grand hack to add a > > little staff to an instrument name. I don't see the essential > > difference between this and > > > > \set instrumentName = \markup { \score { .. } the-real-name } > > > > ex

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 11 févr. 08 à 02:07, Han-Wen Nienhuys a écrit : [...] - If I'm reading this correctly, this is all a grand hack to add a little staff to an instrument name. I don't see the essential difference between this and \set instrumentName = \markup { \score { .. } the-real-name } except that

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Karl Hammar
Till: > Juergen Reuter schrieb: > > as far as I understand, all problems with incipits boil down to the > > following two major issues: > > > > (1) horizontal spacing, and I did not focus on that, it is an ancient notation issue, it is not specific to incipits. > > (2) the system start delim

Re: [patch] X-aligned instrument names

2008-02-11 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 11 févr. 08 à 02:41, Han-Wen Nienhuys a écrit : Sounds like a good idea. You could do the same with the other lines, if you would assume that there was a 'virtual' indent (don't change the line dimensions, but assume there is a global given space to align names with) Ok. Should I define a

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Till Rettig
Juergen Reuter schrieb: Hi all, as far as I understand, all problems with incipits boil down to the following two major issues: (1) horizontal spacing, and (2) the system start delimiter. Karl's solution unfortunately leaves horizontal space between the incipit and the actual score;

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Robert Memering wrote: Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 16:36 schrieb Juergen Reuter: IIRC, the spacing engine maintains a variable that keeps track of shortest available duration in a peace in computes the ideal distance of larger note values in a logarithmic scale based on t

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Till Rettig
Robert Memering schrieb: Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 16:36 schrieb Juergen Reuter: IIRC, the spacing engine maintains a variable that keeps track of shortest available duration in a peace in computes the ideal distance of larger note values in a logarithmic scale based on the shortest durat

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Robert Memering
Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 16:36 schrieb Juergen Reuter: > IIRC, the spacing engine maintains a variable that keeps track of shortest > available duration in a peace in computes the ideal distance of larger > note values in a logarithmic scale based on the shortest duration. Maybe > this computat

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Juergen Reuter
Hi all, as far as I understand, all problems with incipits boil down to the following two major issues: (1) horizontal spacing, and (2) the system start delimiter. Karl's solution unfortunately leaves horizontal space between the incipit and the actual score; hence it does *not* solve i

Re: Incipits

2008-02-11 Thread Karl Hammar
Han-Wen: > Sorry for looking at this so late. > > General comments: > > - you're adding an enormous bunch of code to the instrument name > engraver. That's a bad idea. If this idea merits an engraver, it > should be a separate one. ... > - If I'm reading this correctly, this is all a grand hack t

Re: Should \relative be the default for musicxml2ly

2008-02-11 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mats> Definitely relative! I don't feel strongly, but the other converters (midi2ly, abc2ly, etf2ly...) all use absolute pitches. And using relative definitely makes it necessary to be careful about taking an exerpt out of context, w

Re: Should \relative be the default for musicxml2ly

2008-02-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Definitely relative! /Mats Andrew Hawryluk wrote: I, too, am in favour of relative as the default. -AH On Feb 8, 2008 9:40 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Musicxml2ly supports converting to both relative pitches and absolute pitches. The question I have is, whi