Improved user interface doesn't just mean GUI.
It can also mean things like simplifying the syntax to
make lilypond files more readible and usable, better
package structures, something better than templates -
style files etc. I'm talking about something analogous
to the jump from TeX to LaTeX.
Markus Schneider wrote:
Have you ever considered that your question has
probably been already discussed, and that showing you the right
keyword for searching is the quickest solution.
No it isn't the "quickest" solution. the "quickest" solution would
have been to just give the
I've been using lilypond to write arrangements for my vocal group.
I've done about 5 arrangements this way. I'm generally very happy
with lilypond. It does many difficult things with surprisingly little
fuss, is quick and easy to use, and produces marvellous output in
most cases. Conversely howeve
How do you specify the output file name from within
lilypond? Can you in fact do this at all? What I have in
mind is a template for producing part specific music
and learning midis for a quartet from a single lilypond file.
It would be simple enough to write multiple score blocks
in a template to
The biggest improvement to initial usability on the windows platform
would be quite simple. If lilypond is invoked without arguments (i.e.
by clicking the icon on the desktop) do something ... anything ... at
minimum display some documentation as to usage. Else ...
... hmmm ... lilypond looks
The same problem arises frequently when typesetting barbershop
music only worse because for most of the piece all four parts sing
the same lyric, but there may be a couple of bars when all lyrics
are different and so four lyric lines are required. No truly satisfactory
solution has yet been propos
Erik Sandberg wrote:
>You can use two different voices for the notes, and then use \lyricsto to
>assign lyrics only to one of the voices:
>
><<
> \new Staff <<
>\context Voice="song" {s1 | b4 b b r | s1 | s1 | }
>\context Voice="instr" {b4 a g a | s1 | a4 a a r | b d d r }
> >>
> \
Suggested feature: Commands (e.g.) `\LOn' and `\LOff' to turn on and off
the synchronisation of lyrics and avoid overuse of `_'. For example
{ \LOff b4 a g a | \LOn b b b r | \LOff a a a r | b d d r }
addlyrics { lit -- tle lamb }
To give the same result as
{ b4 a g a | b b b r | a a a r
Apologies for the long description of the problem.
I am typesetting barbershop arrangements for my chorus.
This type of music is typeset on two staves of two voices each. Most of
the time all four voices sing the same words, and at those times I need
a single lyric line centered between the stav
