Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Johan Vromans
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: It would be nice if someone from the sibelius team came out and gave some hints about how the .sib format is structured. We could be of help by rescuing the years of work many users have stashed away as .sib files. (I had a brief look at the file

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread David Kastrup
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: It would be nice if someone from the sibelius team came out and gave some hints about how the .sib format is structured. We could be of help by rescuing the years of work many users have stashed away as

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com wrote: (I had a brief look at the file format years ago; the problem is that they run some sort of compression scheme over their data) What I'd do in cases like this is: - Create a 'score' with only a middle C1 in it - Same

Re: Turning a lilypond file into a Sibelius file

2012-08-06 Thread Phil Holmes
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/midi-output should get you the basic notes and structure. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Warren Cohen To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: Turning a lilypond file into a

Re: the new vertical spacing between systems syntax

2012-08-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 11:34 PM Subject: the new vertical spacing between systems syntax Concerning the examples in the manual, section 4.4.2: 4.4.2 Explicit staff and system positioning

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com To: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net Cc: m...@apollinemike.com; Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 4:04 AM Subject: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down It would be

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 06/08/12 04:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: It is easy to see how these events could help lilypond long-term, but it's also easy for any response from us to be interpreted negatively. Let the Sibelius users have their personal moment of pain/mourning; if they need open-source music notation,

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 06/08/12 04:10, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Architecturally it is very difficult. Rather than making lilypond much more complicated to do incremental rendering, why not invert the problem: have your editor control line breaks, and use lilypond to render just one line of music at a time. Why is

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread George_
m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: On 5 août 2012, at 12:37, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 02/08/12 17:51, Graham Percival wrote: In short: if there is a concerted effort to create a quick render output, I would be absolutely shocked if it wasn't at least 10

user interaction with notation software

2012-08-06 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, The other week I was talking with a couple of music people. Talking to Person A about upcoming concert programme, showing some choir musicsheets I typeset with Lilypond after A had groaned about sometimesless-than-perfect computer output. Person A was amazed about the clarity, well

Re: LilyPond developeruser meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

2012-08-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Just a suggestion, but given the recent news regarding Sibelius (cf. discussion on User list), why not drop a line to a couple of the main MuseScore developers and as them if they'd like to come along?

Re: LilyPond developeruser meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

2012-08-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:13:06PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Just a suggestion, but given the recent news regarding Sibelius (cf. discussion on User list), why not drop a line to a couple of the

Re: LilyPond developeruser meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

2012-08-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 06/08/12 13:13, Janek Warchoł wrote: Good idea. I can write an email to them - is anyone opposed? I think Werner Schweer is based in Bielefeld, which if Google Maps is anything to go by is only a little over an hour's drive from Waltrop. ___

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2012-08-06 04:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: It is worth reminding that by providing high-quality notation tools for free, both Musescore and LilyPond have been a contributing factor in both Sibelius' and Finale (see http://www.makemusic.com/Pressroom/Default.aspx?pid=555) current problems It

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Neil Thornock
It is easy to see how these events could help lilypond long-term, but it's also easy for any response from us to be interpreted negatively. Let the Sibelius users have their personal moment of pain/mourning; if they need open-source music notation, they will certainly be able to find us

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Tim Roberts
George_ wrote: WRT (1): Someone in this thread suggested using individual threads to render a bar at a time. The end result would be messy, but what if one or two threads were dedicated to running 'behind' the main threads to clean up and knit together output? Multithreading works well when

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread David Kastrup
Tim Roberts t...@probo.com writes: George_ wrote: WRT (1): Someone in this thread suggested using individual threads to render a bar at a time. The end result would be messy, but what if one or two threads were dedicated to running 'behind' the main threads to clean up and knit together

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Lucas Gonze lucas.go...@gmail.com wrote: Is it architecturally possible to make a significant amount of overhead go away? Are incremental compiles plausible? Architecturally it is very

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread George_
Tim Roberts wrote: George_ wrote: WRT (1): Someone in this thread suggested using individual threads to render a bar at a time. The end result would be messy, but what if one or two threads were dedicated to running 'behind' the main threads to clean up and knit together output?

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Johan Vromans
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: That makes my copyright red flags go up. Can you check back with Kirill and possible other authors under which conditions you are allowed to share? The plug-in and the postprocessor are both GPL. We'll likely also have to check the conditions for

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Christ van Willegen cvwille...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com wrote: (I had a brief look at the file format years ago; the problem is that they run some sort of compression scheme over their data) What I'd do

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:57 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com writes: George_ wrote: WRT (1): Someone in this thread suggested using individual threads to render a bar at a time. The end result would be messy, but what if one or two threads were dedicated to

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 07:24:06 -0600 From: Neil Thornock neilthorn...@gmail.com To: han...@xs4all.nl Cc: m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com,    Lilypond-User     lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down Message-ID:    

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 06/08/12 20:26, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Also, going MT will give you a max 8x speedup (assuming perfect parallelization on an 8 core machine). That is not going to bring down processing costs to interactive rates. I think you're focusing on the wrong kind of architecture. _This_ is the

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 06/08/12 20:26, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Also, going MT will give you a max 8x speedup (assuming perfect parallelization on an 8 core machine). That is not going to bring down processing costs to

How to use clef moderntab

2012-08-06 Thread Ben Eichler
Hi there, I'm a brand new user of Lilypond, just downloaded this morning! I'm using it to create more beautiful scores for my guitar and bass students. In the notation reference under section 2.4.1 Custom

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Neil Thornock
It's a possible sign that music -- the type many of us are involved in -- is losing in the greater culture war. It's not LilyPond vs Sibelius vs Finale but rather Quality Music vs Cheap Entertainment. Uncompromising artistic discipline certainly has its pedagogical usefulness, but when

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread George_
Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: On 06/08/12 20:26, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Also, going MT will give you a max 8x speedup (assuming perfect parallelization on an 8 core machine). That is not going to

Re: How to use clef moderntab

2012-08-06 Thread Shane Frasier
Ben, I am still a bit of a novice myself, but I think you want to do something like: \new StaffGroup \new Staff { \clef bass_8 \symbols } \new TabStaff { \clef moderntab \set TabStaff.stringTunings =

Re: How to use clef moderntab

2012-08-06 Thread Nick Payne
On 07/08/12 09:03, Ben Eichler wrote: /\new StaffGroup / /\new Staff \symbols {/ /\clef bass_8/ /}/ /\new TabStaff \symbols {/ /\clef moderntab/ /\set TabStaff.stringTunings = #bass-tuning/ /}/ // Move \symbols after the clef declaration: \version 2.15.42 symbols

How to use clef moderntab

2012-08-06 Thread wjm
Greetings, You wrote ++ \new StaffGroup \new Staff \symbols { \clef bass_8 } \new TabStaff \symbols { \clef moderntab \set TabStaff.stringTunings = #bass-tuning } ++ From the Notation Reference - slightly edited

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:56 PM, George_ georgexu...@gmail.com wrote: The reason this is important is because while IPC goes up incrementally and relatively slowly (IPC has done little more than double between 2005 [P4 660] and now [i7 3930X]) and clock speed is relatively stagnant (it's

Re: Can anyone help to code what is in png.

2012-08-06 Thread David Kastrup
MING TSANG tsan...@rogers.com writes: I try to code per the png.   I don't know what it is call, therefore I cannot search LSR. Help is appreciated. The LSR is just the second important reference. The most important reference is the notation manual, and it is ordered by topic. In this

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread George_
Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:56 PM, George_ georgexu...@gmail.com wrote: The reason this is important is because while IPC goes up incrementally and relatively slowly (IPC has done little more than double between 2005 [P4 660] and now [i7 3930X]) and clock speed is

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:50 AM, George_ georgexu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to explain that the constant factor (namely 8-fold) comes at a tremendous cost. Writing multithreaded code without getting stuck in race-conditions and deadlocks is extremely difficult and time consuming, and

Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

2012-08-06 Thread George_
Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:50 AM, George_ georgexu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to explain that the constant factor (namely 8-fold) comes at a tremendous cost. Writing multithreaded code without getting stuck in race-conditions and deadlocks is extremely