Re: LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-05 Thread Karl Hammar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Jesse Engle wrote: > > > > 4.) There is no way to create an entire page of exercises (a feature > > that would be incredibly useful for music teachers such as myself) > > like this: > > > > http://jengle.waferbaby.com/tmp/lp/exercises.png > Actually, you could do this too wit

Re: LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jesse Engle wrote: 4.) There is no way to create an entire page of exercises (a feature that would be incredibly useful for music teachers such as myself) like this: http://jengle.waferbaby.com/tmp/lp/exercises.png Actually, you could do this too within LilyPond, since you can use \markup

Re: LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-04 Thread Rune Zedeler
Jesse Engle wrote: 1) There is no way that I have yet discovered to notate rhythms for all four limbs, Where did you look? http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Percussion-staves 2) LilyPond does not provide ratio-notation for odd groupings. For instance, if I notate a gro

Re: LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Michael Welsh Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks to me like drummode is undocumented. You can use the listed > example and the contents of .../ly/drumpitch-init.ly in order to > figure out what is happening. In particular, use the value of > drumPitchNames in order to figure out the n

Re: LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Jesse Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a drummer, and while I love that I can finally use free notation > software instead of Finale for many melodic instruments, I've realized > that the percussion features of LilyPond are lacking. > > 1) There is no way that I have yet discovered to nota

Re: LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi, Jesse! add the following features that I've listed. No need -- everything can, I believe, already be done. Just read the relevant parts of the wonderful documentation. For example 2) LilyPond does not provide ratio-notation for odd groupings. Just use \override TupletNumber #'te

LilyPond suggestions

2007-01-04 Thread Jesse Engle
Hi everyone. While I am a decent programmer, I have never been part of a large project such as this, so I would not know where to begin in attempting to add the following features that I've listed. I am a drummer, and while I love that I can finally use free notation software instead of Finale