Re: MusicXML exporter (was Re: Lilypond lobbying?)

2011-08-25 Thread Jack Cooper
precise format.  I wind up doing my formatting in Finale, since the Legato support folks recommend the MusicXML export from Finale (using Recordare's export plugins) as the cleanest output for the Legato music player. By the way, I'll contribute $75 US to the MusicXML exporter pro

Re: guitar chord: add9 - how?

2010-10-04 Thread Jack Cooper
tions d1:9^7 } The exceptions you define applies to any chord of that voicing, regardless of the key. I do all of my exceptions in the key of C, for clarity. -- Jack Cooper, BerLen Music www.berlenmusic.com www.jack-cooper.com___ lilypond-user mailin

Re: Chord Naming

2010-04-26 Thread Jack Cooper
pointer to the relevant notation manual chapter or LSR entry. The hardest thing is sometimes finding the right keyword to search. Cheers, Jack -- Jack Cooper, BerLen Music www.berlenmusic.com www.jack-cooper.com - Original Message > From: Martin Tarenskeen > To: Jack Cooper

Re: Chord Naming

2010-04-25 Thread Jack Cooper
include that file in all my scores. I suppose that doesn't work if you have different interpretations of chord names for the same chord in different pieces, but doing this once will save you a lot of hassle. And saving you hassle is one of Lilypond's strongest features. -- Jack Coope

Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite)

2010-02-08 Thread Jack Cooper
Just out of curiosity... Assuming for the moment that development interest might materialize if there were money involved, approximately how much sponsorship dollars would be involved to tackle this? Jack -- Jack Cooper, BerLen Music www.berlenmusic.com www.jack-cooper.com

Re: Community of professional LilyPond engravers?

2010-02-05 Thread Jack Cooper
as the representative/support for Sibelius Scorch.  Legato uses MusicXML files as input and allows for extensive digital content management.  I am currently converting some of my Lilypond-generated songs into MusicXML and am working on integrating Legato sales into my online ecommerce site.  

Re: Lilypond vs Score

2010-02-01 Thread Jack Cooper
s the standard, learn another format? Or pay someone to translate output from other formats into the *DOS-based* score? Just sayin'... Jack -- Jack Cooper, BerLen Music www.berlenmusic.com www.jack-cooper.com > That ability would seem to indicate more possibilities. The person I &

Re: sheet music site for contemporary music

2010-01-26 Thread Jack Cooper
you including popular genres as well? Jack -- Jack Cooper, BerLen Music www.berlenmusic.com www.jack-cooper.com > >From: Stefan Thomas >To: lilypond-user >Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 4:18:54 AM >Subject: sheet music site for contemporary music > >Dear community, >

Re: linking render frames in Scribus

2009-09-01 Thread Jack Cooper
pdf file, but when the end product is print, who cares? I don't know whether the lousy pdf rendering was a result of the version I was using at the time (the book was finished in February) and whether subsequent releases have improved pdf import. Cheers, Jack Jack Cooper, BerLen

Re: Lilypond to XML

2009-04-21 Thread Jack Cooper
etained through this process. Jack Cooper, BerLen Music www.berlenmusic.com --- On Tue, 4/21/09, craigbakalian wrote: From: craigbakalian Subject: Lilypond to XML To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Received: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 6:24 PM Hi all, Do we have anything to convert a lilypond file

Re: songbook from Lily scores

2009-02-07 Thread Jack Cooper
For a songbook project I just completed, I've been using Scribus and Gimp to manage my songbook layout and import the individual song pages as 300 dpi png files. This worked reasonably well, although Scribus takes a bit of playing around with to figure out how to configure a table of contents and o

Re: Lilypond version compile times

2008-05-22 Thread Jack Cooper
My bad- I should have read the fixes for 2.11.43.. Cheers, Jack - Original Message From: Jack Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List lilypond-user ; List lilypond-user Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:26:01 PM Subject: Lilypond version compile times A silly question- a whil

Lilypond version compile times

2008-05-22 Thread Jack Cooper
A silly question- a while back, people were reporting drastically slower compile times for the newest release of lilypond from that for previous versions. For that reason, I haven't version 11 since something like 2.11.32 (or maybe earlier..). Has the speed issue been resolved? If I recall, the

Re: Open Tuning Conversion

2008-01-29 Thread Jack Cooper
--- Martin Seng Hin Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear lilypond users, > > I'm copying some fingerstyle guitar score. Most of the songs are in open > tuning (like D A D G A D) and crosstuning (like E-B-E-G-B-E). The > notation is hard to read because it is totally different from standard >

Re: Open Tuning Conversion

2008-01-29 Thread Jack Cooper
--- Martin Seng Hin Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear lilypond users, > > I'm copying some fingerstyle guitar score. Most of the songs are in open > tuning (like D A D G A D) and crosstuning (like E-B-E-G-B-E). The > notation is hard to read because it is totally different from standard >

Re: Creating a nice formatted Chords + Lyrics layout for guitar players

2007-11-19 Thread Jack Cooper
--- Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Bonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You may see my current result on this pdf file: > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p13829430/CL-v2.pdf > > If this is what you want to achieve, I'd suggest to take a look at the > 'chords' program. (It i

Re: Odd Volta Behaviour

2007-11-14 Thread Jack Cooper
--- Risto Vääräniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Jack, > > On Nov 14, Jack Cooper-2 wrote: > > The song (An abridge version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") > > contains a volta repeat with alternative endings. In this case, >

Re: Odd Volta Behaviour

2007-11-13 Thread Jack Cooper
I've attached a peculiar little example to illustrate a problem I am having with Volta using Alternative endings. Instead of using a regular chordname context to display my chords, I am creating a new voice consisting entirely of spaces and text markups. The text markups contain both the fret dia

Re: Multimeasure rests with chordnames context .. possible bug?

2007-09-26 Thread Jack Cooper
--- Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Jack Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've been having a problem generating multimeasure rests within > > leadsheets, and until recently I made no serious attempt to figure > > out what was

Multimeasure rests with chordnames context .. possible bug?

2007-09-25 Thread Jack Cooper
rsion 2.10.x as well. I've attached a copy of one of the leadsheet files that exhibits this behaviour.. Cheers, Jack% % This lilypond source file produces lead sheet output % for a Jack Cooper composition, "Eyes Wide Open". % The melody is written out in full in this example

Songbook source files

2007-08-23 Thread Jack Cooper
If anyone is interested, I've put the source files online for the songbook I've recently created (I haven't gotten around to fixing the reference to lilypond's web site yet!) To access, go to: www.jack-cooper.com/lilysource Username: lilypond Password: awesome Cheers, Jack

Re: songbooks with guitar tablature

2007-08-23 Thread Jack Cooper
Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jack, I took the liberty to download and look at your songbook, and just wanted to share a few questions that occured to me while reading it: Hi, Valentin. Thanks for your feedback- I would mind responsing to your questions point by point. -fir

Re: songbooks with guitar tablature

2007-08-23 Thread Jack Cooper
Roy Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi -- I intend to produce songbooks of my songs in piano/vocal format with occasional lines of guitar tablature. Is Lilypond capable of doing that? Thank you, Roy Hi, Roy. I just finished completing a songbook of my recent CD using lilypond. I inclu

Re: Template for a leadsheet (vocal, chords, lyrics, several verses)

2007-05-08 Thread Jack Cooper
ly for including tabs or instrumental licks, and I would be happy to share one of those with you or anyone if it may be of use. Cheers, Jack Cooper \version "2.10.17" \include "english.ly" #(set-global-staff-size 17) \paper { between-system-space = 10\mm

Re: Hiding Empty Tab Staves

2007-04-18 Thread Jack Cooper
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can find the basic steps of the solution in the mailing list archives. However, it seems that some details have changed, so I include the solution here: \layout{ \context { \TabStaff \remove "Axis_group_engraver" \consists "Hara_kiri_e

Hiding Empty Tab Staves

2007-04-16 Thread Jack Cooper
version 2.10.17 - if it will help, I can include the syntax, as it currently stands, which produces the output including tab part. Thanks, Jack Cooper ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Vertical alignment of lyrics to multiple voices

2007-01-02 Thread Jack Cooper
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Every time you do \new Lyrics, you get a new Lyrics context, which is placed on a separate line. Just include all your lyrics sections into one and the same Lyrics context if you want them vertically aligned, i.e. replace your current \score block with

Vertical alignment of lyrics to multiple voices

2006-12-31 Thread Jack Cooper
Happy new year! I have been navigating the lilypond world for the past six months and have been primarily exploring lilypond as a tool for creating leadsheets and songbooks. My main interest is figuring out how to create an efficient template for creating a leadsheet (or "fakebook" style sheet)