Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> The line length in the patch is already limited to 80 characters. > > Indeed, the line length is OK in stafftab-engraver.scm, but both > stafftab.ly and string-tunings-init.ly exceed the limit. Ah, I see. Sorry about that. I already modified stafftab.ly to break the d

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> To simplify the process, I suggest that you get write access to the >> lilypond git repository so that you can add such incremental >> patches to one or more separate branches (I like this method >> bettern than the `modern' way of forking lilypond at github, then >> followed by push requests) –

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Just having a quick look (since I don't understand Tab notation at >> all) I ask you the same as almost everybody else who commits a >> patch the first time: Please try to limit the line length to 80 >> characters! > > The line length in the patch is already limited to 80 characters. Indeed,

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
David Nalesnik writes: > When I apply your patch and try to compile the example file I get: > > warning: cannot find or create new `StaffTab' > warning: cannot find or create new `StaffTab' > warning: cannot find or create new `StickVoice' > warning: cannot find or create new `StickVoice' > MIDI

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Werner LEMBERG writes: > Just having a quick look (since I don't understand Tab notation at > all) I ask you the same as almost everybody else who commits a patch > the first time: Please try to limit the line length to 80 characters! The line length in the patch is already limited to 80 charact

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Here's the patch: Just having a quick look (since I don't understand Tab notation at all) I ask you the same as almost everybody else who commits a patch the first time: Please try to limit the line length to 80 characters! Werner ___ lilypond-

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Joram Berger
Hi Lukas, once again, I am no expert on ancient notation. So I don't know whether the length of the stems in your renaissance style are required to be exactly as long as they are now. They roughly end in the middle of a staff space for notes on this position and on a staff line for notes on a staf

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:24 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:15 PM, David Nalesnik > wrote: > >> Hi Ricardo, >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Ricardo Wurmus >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Here's the patch: >>> >> >> When I apply your patch and try to compile the example fi

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:15 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Ricardo Wurmus > wrote: > >> >> Here's the patch: >> > > When I apply your patch and try to compile the example file I get: > > warning: cannot find or create new `StaffTab' > warning: canno

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Ricardo, On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Here's the patch: > When I apply your patch and try to compile the example file I get: warning: cannot find or create new `StaffTab' warning: cannot find or create new `StaffTab' warning: cannot find or create new `StickVoi

[PATCH] Add scheme engraver for StaffTab notation

2015-02-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, I failed to authenticate with Rietveld via git-cl (using the web interface it works just fine); the reason is given as "WebLoginRequired". Since I don't know how to fix this, I'm sending my patch along with this email. It adds new tunings for the Chapman Stick and a StaffTab engraver. Here'

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Lukas Pietsch
Werner LEMBERG gnu.org> writes: > No. Not a patch, but a series of patches, adding the stuff in small, > incremental steps that are easy to review. I'm willing to proof-read > all changes to the Metafont sources. > > To simplify the process, I suggest that you get write access to the > lilyp

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread David Kastrup
Lukas Pietsch writes: > Indeed, I quite agree it's a matter of how best to make the basic > Lilypond system most efficiently extendable. I'd like to think of what > I'm proposing as a thing with two layers. > > There is a set of core functional extensions that will just enhance > the coverage of

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Lukas Pietsch
David Kastrup gnu.org> writes: > You state "The notation samples, which include numerous highly uncommon > and idiosyncratic forms, will be encoded in the corpus in an XML-based > format". If the forms are highly uncommon and idiosyncratic, can they > be described by an XML-based expressions tha

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>I have a working draft of the Lilypond coding, which involves quite >>a bit of Scheme code, a patched Lilypond font with a section of new >>proposed glyphs, and a few minor patches to Lilypond's C++ codebase. >>Unfortunately, owing to the latter, the whole system currently works >>only with a pa

Re: Draft: Extended mensural notation support

2015-02-23 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/23/15 10:38 AM, "Lukas Pietsch" wrote: >I have a working draft of the Lilypond coding, which involves quite a bit >of >Scheme code, a patched Lilypond font with a section of new proposed >glyphs, >and a few minor patches to Lilypond's C++ codebase. Unfortunately, owing >to >the latter, the