[To LilyPond User's List: I just received this tiny mail from the publishing and software company Nordisc. Has any other Lily contributor heard about them, or is it just me ?]
2007/2/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear Valentin, We just want to thank you directly for helping us out of the midi2ly.py problem. Including an expert in python on the team, we were unable to make the #ยค%! thing work. For 1 whole month. Your article on Gmane solved the problem.
Well, I'm glad it could help...
Next problem is that LilyPond cannot read the converted *.ly file. One problem at a time.
The truth is, midi2ly doesn't work very well. For instance, it doesn't handle -yet- bar checking or pitch checking, so sometimes, LilyPond tends to get confused with large many MIDI scores. So maybe you'd better reconsider your "Convert MIDI to an editable score" feature thing... or, still, you can help debugging the midi2ly script (which would be much appreciated by the whole LilyPond community, and would definitely convince many LilyPond users to give your soft a try...)
If you visit the our special note writing resource site www.a-play.dk in March, you will soon be able to see our baby, a brand new shell to run LilyPond with hundreds of templates, ready made chords, fret diagrams, advanced scales etc. The A-Play environment also contains an advanced Music Theory book, a Basic Piano book and a new User's Guide for LilyPond written by our technical writer.
As a composer and a piano teacher myself, I'm pleased to discover this. At this point I can't figure out what this is precisely all about, but it's always a good surprise to see how much LilyPond is appreciated. By the way, it appears you have a "technical writer"; I wonder what this new "user Guide" will look like. As one of the translator of the "old" User Manual written by Graham Percival among others (which I find quite useable and useful), I'm looking forward to see what improvements you made.
The baby is called A-Play 3.0. She used to be a "normal" notation software until 1992. When we reopened the project a few years ago, we decided to use LilyPond as the engine. It will be freeware all over, including the music teaching books. Think we have come up with quite a few easy and workable solutions to the many difficult explanations in the original manuals. Except for the midi2ly.py, that is :-(.
This the point I'm not getting. As far as I can see, you don't make any difference between "free speech and "free beer" here. How comes you managed to mix up GPL software (LilyPond) with free non-OSS TedNotepad and commercial software (NoteWorthy)? How can your new A-play licensing guarantee any long-term freedom for the users (particularly, what if you can't support the software anymore, or can't support it without any fee?) One more question: will your software be cross-platform? LilyPond is totally Unix/Mac/Win32 compatible, and so are most of its helpful editors (to begin with jEdit and Bert Fodor's wonderful LilyPondTool plugin). I won't be able to give A-play a look (or a try) if it isn't able to run on my computer, of course. Once again, I'm afraid the pieces of software you implemented have made it less freely useable.
Check out A-Play with LilyPond around 1st of March on www.a-play.dk. And again, thanks a lot for your helpful article!
My pleasure. However, I can't help being a little surprised, as I wasn't able to found any mention or announcement related to A-play 3.0 or it's development on any of the LilyPond mailing lists. As LilyPond is free (as in "speech") software, both the users and developpers are always in need of help for debugging, corrections and so on. Why do I have this weird impression there hasn't been any true partnership between nordisc and LilyPond ? Anyway, I Cc this message to the LilyPond User's List, as far as I think a lot of people may be interested, and there are many things to say and to discuss about the new A-play with the whole LilyPond community.
Best regards NORDISC Music & Text
Regards, Valentin Villenave.
Henrik W. Gade Phone +45 21 76 15 00 NORDISC, Hoertoftevej 9, dk-2700 Broenshoej, Denmark
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