Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
David Rogers wrote: Once you ask "But which software might be slightly better to have in the future?", nobody can give a good answer, because too many assumptions are required. All of the software choices carry huge risks, when you compare them to keeping a physical human-readable archive. I ag

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread David Rogers
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:40:01 -0400, Jason Merrill wrote: > Thanks for the interesting comments so far. I want to refocus the > discussion slightly. I didn't mean to get into a discussion about the > relative merits of lilypond as an entry tool, exactly, so take as a > temporary supposition that I

Lilypond for jazz lead sheet questions

2007-04-09 Thread iain duncan
Sorry if this has been asked a lot, but looking in the archives didn't seem like it was going to help, I did try! =) I would like to know if Lilypond allows the following for jazz lead sheets: - control over bar spacing, regardless of the note content - use of various different jazz chord symbols

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
Jason Merrill wrote: You can turn anything else into lilypond via MusicXML, but once you've worked on it in lilypond, there's no obvious way to get it back into a different editable format. See "to-xml.ly" and "song-*.ly" in the regression tests. Luckily, this problem could be entirely addre

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread Aaron Dalton
Jason Merrill wrote: >> There is not now, nor ever will be, some universal music language. >> MusicXML is an option, but not one everybody will choose. One could ask >> the exact same question by replacing 'lilypond' with 'MusicXML'. The >> issue with archival (it seems to me) is a format whose s

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread Jason Merrill
There is not now, nor ever will be, some universal music language. MusicXML is an option, but not one everybody will choose. One could ask the exact same question by replacing 'lilypond' with 'MusicXML'. The issue with archival (it seems to me) is a format whose source will "always" be readable

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread Roland Goretzki
Hello list, hello Tim, You wrote: > Roland asked: I wonder what the typical note-entry-time/layout-tweak-time > ratio is amongst LilyPond users. It was Tom, not Roland. :-) Best Regards Roland ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

Re: automatic rest grouping

2007-04-09 Thread Tim Reeves
Valentin wrote: >To my mind, LilyPond should be able to automatically "group" rests, I could see the utility of that, but I think it should have a "switch" in case one wants the c4 r r r to show a quarter note and three quarter rests. Tim Reeves__

Re: Formatting a blank sheet

2007-04-09 Thread Stephen Torri
I must comment my own email. What I see when it prints out is different from viewing it in a PDF format. What is see is that KPDF opens the sheet at 200%. When I set it to 100% I see that its much smaller. What I was wondering if I need to set the page size to say that I would like to print out on

Formatting a blank sheet

2007-04-09 Thread Stephen Torri
I tried to use the blank sheet example found in the documentation. While I like the fact I see the treble and tab staffs I would like the page to have at least a 5mm border around the page. I have tried to change the line-width variable in the paper definition. I see that the line-width = 160mm - 2

Re: midi2ly: makeshift patch

2007-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
Alexander Hanysz wrote: Below is a patch for what on my system is the file /usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/midi2ly (I'm using version 2.10.20). Fixed (?): the --key command line argument is recognised; key signatures and time signatures now appear correctly; rests are visible. Do you have a test

Re: parts from score or score from parts?

2007-04-09 Thread Graham Percival
Peter Mogensen wrote: However... this editing of the score file is tedious. Why not add a feature to lilypond where you can select to "mute" certain staffs or voices with a command line switch? If by "mute" you mean "only include certain staffs", then this is already done. The basic idea is

Re: parts from score or score from parts?

2007-04-09 Thread Francisco Vila
El lun, 09 de abr de 2007, a las 06:50:40 +0200, Peter Mogensen dijo: > > I usually maintain a seperate section defining the score from the > different voice, which I edit when I need a different extract. > > However... this editing of the score file is tedious. Why not add a > feature to lilyp

Re: Odd problem with pdf output/layout

2007-04-09 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The page breaking routines have been completely reworked in the latest development release, 2.11.x. It seems that a few bugs are left in 2.11.21, but you may want to try it anyway. /Mats Quoting Jay Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello- Below is first movement of a String Quartet. When I com

Re: producing "archival" scores

2007-04-09 Thread Tim Reeves
Roland asked: I wonder what the typical note-entry-time/layout-tweak-time ratio is amongst LilyPond users. For me, lilypond works quite well "out of the box" and my ratio is probably about 90/10. Then again, I'm mostly working on just horn parts for myself - not piano or choir or orchestral sc

Re: Notes are going octaves down [solved]

2007-04-09 Thread Jesús Guillermo Andrade
Thanks Anthony. I have solved the problem by separating the voices and using two "relative" commands based on different octaves. Thus the notes are all right now. Having said that, your recommendation seems very interesting and I'll save it for another document Im working on. -- Jesús Guillermo A

Re:parts from score or score from parts?

2007-04-09 Thread Peter Mogensen
I usually maintain a seperate section defining the score from the different voice, which I edit when I need a different extract. However... this editing of the score file is tedious. Why not add a feature to lilypond where you can select to "mute" certain staffs or voices with a command line

Re: rest merging (willing to sponsor)

2007-04-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello everyone, Talking about merging rests and typography automation, I've often been wondering if it could be possible for LilyPond to automatically correct rests typography, even inside a single Voice context. Let me explain myself: I don't know if I'm the only one here to have bad typographi

beginning-of-measure padding value?

2007-04-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[ Lilypond 2.11.12 ; Mac OS X 10.4.9 ] Hello, all! In recent versions of Lilypond, I find that the first element of every measure is generally too close to the preceding barline for my taste -- i.e., there isn't enough left-padding on the first note or rest or whatever (n.b., the spacing i