Re: Questions From a New User

2020-10-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> Am 30.10.2020 um 12:24 schrieb Damien Garwood : > > So far, we have been using MIDI to hear our scores back, but since MIDI is an > events-only system, does that accurately reflect how the score looks? For > instance, articulations wouldn't be able to be replicated in MIDI, nor would > the

Re: Questions From a New User

2020-10-30 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] I take it the "angle brackets" are the < and > symbols? The > reason I ask is because screen readers often read these out as > "less" and "greater". Yes. The terminology is a bit unfortunate – indeed, “less than” and “greater than” are the correct names for the ASCII characters < and >,

Re: Questions From a New User

2020-10-30 Thread Damien Garwood
Hi Aaron, Having no prior knowledge of print, please excuse me for asking, but I take it the "angle brackets" are the < and > symbols? The reason I ask is because screen readers often read these out as "less" and "greater". That's one of the things that confused us - the fact that sometimes you

Re: Questions From a New User

2020-10-30 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
MIDI output from LilyPond is usually the way one would be able to listen to their score. While MusicXML can be converted *to* LilyPond, the reverse is not possible to my knowledge. There is an open issue [2] filed requesting a MusicXML backend to LilyPond, which would enable it to output

Re: Questions From a New User

2020-10-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> After looking into several different score-writing software, I am > now studying LilyPond to see how I could use it to produce music > scores. [...] > > We have been making our way through the Learning Manual and are > struggling with the concepts underlying the construction of chords, > mult

Re: Questions From a New User

2020-10-29 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2020-10-29 6:25 pm, Jenny Suchan wrote: My name is Jenny Suchan, and I just joined this list yesterday. I am a totally blind musician seriously pursuing a career in music composition. After looking into several different score-writing software, I am now studying LilyPond to see how I could use