Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-11 Thread Janek Warchoł
W dniu 10 lutego 2012 14:30 użytkownik Graham Percival napisał: > I suggest the following: > > 1) pick a specific work, or body of works, which are > unquestionably in the public domain. A Dvorak string quartet? > Beethoven piano concerto? Bach chorales? Something already in > mutopia? > (actua

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "pls" To: "Phil Holmes" > There are a number of commercial products that, given a perfect > representation of a score, convert it to perfect musicXML - so it can't > be that hard. Hm, could you name some, please? I haven't come across such a product, yet

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-11 Thread pls
Am 09.02.2012 um 17:26 schrieb Phil Holmes: > - Original Message - From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" > To: "Carl Sorensen" > >>> C) Development of score_ocr2ly, which would take a score pdf and turn it >>> into .ly files matching the lilypond scoring standard >> >> Heh. This is a known proble

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Robert Schmaus
> 1) pick a specific work, or body of works, which are > unquestionably in the public domain. A Dvorak string quartet? > Beethoven piano concerto? Bach chorales? Something already in > mutopia? as a suggestion of rather popular pieces, I'd like to add bach's violin concertos and/or violin par

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:30:12PM +, Graham Percival wrote: > 2) set up a kickstarter to "perfect" that score, where "perfect" > means "work on lilypond such that good output is produced with > only semantic information". No tweaks, no workarounds, etc. Naturally, once a particular score (+

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:14:49PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > If one can put together a good roadmap. But in this case, the "let's > put up a front for collecting money for David" angle is insufficient. > There is a considerable amount of planned work to do by different > people. Agreed. I su

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread David Kastrup
"Trevor Daniels" writes: > David Kastrup wrote Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:57 AM > >> there is a large inheritage of great music that is already in the public >> domain. LilyPond would be a great contender for maintaining publically >> accessible databases of importance. What is needed for th

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:57 AM there is a large inheritage of great music that is already in the public domain. LilyPond would be a great contender for maintaining publically accessible databases of importance. What is needed for that is a robustness in the sources:

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

2012-02-09 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" To: "Carl Sorensen" C) Development of score_ocr2ly, which would take a score pdf and turn it into .ly files matching the lilypond scoring standard Heh. This is a known problem, and the OCR part is very, very difficult. It also has nothi