Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Ellis
Thanks very much, Phil. Your appreciation means a lot! My head is still a bit fuzzy, too. I'm looking forward to to those deeper thoughts and working with you to make solfege-resources useful to as many people as possible. Cheers, Mike On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Phil Hézaine wrote: > L

Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2011-01-01 Thread Phil Hézaine
Le 31/12/2010 20:33, Michael Ellis a écrit : > Hi Phil, > The problem is pretty well solved. I'm just cleaning up a few things > in my scripts today. > > I don't have all the answers yet regarding copyrights. Margaret > Greentree's site seems to claim copyrights only to the PDF images and > thos

Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Ellis
Hi Phil, The problem is pretty well solved. I'm just cleaning up a few things in my scripts today. I don't have all the answers yet regarding copyrights. Margaret Greentree's site seems to claim copyrights only to the PDF images and those are freely shared for non-commercial use. So I'm not qui

Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2010-12-31 Thread Phil Hézaine
Le 31/12/2010 00:26, Alexander Kobel a écrit : > On 2010-12-30 22:44, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: >> Annoyance: the expressive part needs skips of the durations >> corresponding to the notes in between the expressive marks. Someday, I >> hope that LilyPond will have the facility to mark temporal po

Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2010-12-30 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-12-30 22:44, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote: > Annoyance: the expressive part needs skips of the durations > corresponding to the notes in between the expressive marks. Someday, I > hope that LilyPond will have the facility to mark temporal points in > various parts so that they can be aligned

Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2010-12-30 Thread Michael Ellis
Hi Michael, That's a good idea and I'd do exactly that if I were transcribing the chorales by hand. Fortunately, Margaret Greentree (jsbchorales.net) has already done the hard work of entering all the notes for 404 chorales, but she did it in Finale, so I'm starting from LilyPond converted from he

Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

2010-12-30 Thread Michael J. O'Donnell
In similar situations, I like to create LilyPond variables whose values are the notes only for each part, and a separate variable whose value is the expressive marks that go on all parts together, including fermatas, dynamic markings, ... Then, I can create a full score with the expressive mar