Re: an open question

Hello Joe, this is touching a subject I have been working on last year. I created some kind of proof of concept to export other file formats from lilypond. I can export musicXML and Humdrum with some limitations. It is based on an infrastructure that exports via format-plugins so it should be

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

" If it isn’t hard, you can probably do better." - Love that. I'd say the same about writing, of which I do a lot. It's easier than it was, but still hard, if it's to be really good. But...let's not tell Rossini that, OK? His work alone disputes the notion, even if he might not. I don't know of

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

On 24 March 2018 at 11:25, Flaming Hakama by Elaine < ela...@flaminghakama.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: > >> Hogwash? Well, not really. Your point about what is possible is fine. I >> don't disagree. But my point remains, and my error

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

I developed my inner ear almost entirely as an adult, so I learned it consciously. It came first from solfeging everything I came into contact with. That helped me understand the diatonic tendencies of notes. Then I studied counterpoint. In doing my exercises, i would do it on paper first. When

an open question

Hello, When another user inquired about composing without midi playback, i found encouragement to ask something from the technical side. Maybe i have some healthy curiousity about coding language, which follows: Is it possible to integrate .ly with other musical coding languages? It would be

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: > Hogwash? Well, not really. Your point about what is possible is fine. I > don't disagree. But my point remains, and my error was in not making it > clear enough. I'll try again. > > It has to do with cognitive load and

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

Hogwash? Well, not really. Your point about what is possible is fine. I don't disagree. But my point remains, and my error was in not making it clear enough. I'll try again. It has to do with cognitive load and the concept of "limited attentional workspace", a key concept in cognitive psychology.

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

Hi David, >> 100% in agreement. Developing that inner ear is immeasurably valuable, but >> it takes effort, and that effort is made only when there's motivation. >> Having only oneself to rely on provides the context for that motivation. >> (HA! Can you guess MY occupation?) > > I call

Re: Bug? getting the stencil of the stem removes the beam

Sorry for the even later reply, but this seems to work great as well – and thanks for updating the snippet already :) Cheers, Lucas On 18.03.2018 19:35, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > sorry for the late reply > > 2018-03-16 0:50 GMT+01:00 Lucas Werkmeister : > >>

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

> > >> From: Tom Cloyd > To: Frauke Jurgensen > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:24:48 -0700 > Subject: Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing? > 100% in agreement. Developing that inner ear is immeasurably valuable, but > it takes effort, and that

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

100% in agreement. Developing that inner ear is immeasurably valuable, but it takes effort, and that effort is made only when there's motivation. Having only oneself to rely on provides the context for that motivation. (HA! Can you guess MY occupation?) t.

Re: Is lilypond suitable for big composition projects?

I have been using Lilypond + Frescobaldi for all my compositions for the last 8 years or so, including jazz, chamber music, and a symphony. The symphony is currently at 120 pages, and will probably end up around 170 pages. I certainly don't rely on continuous engraving — for one thing, if I'm

Re: \offset argument order

Malte Meyn writes: > Hi list, > > is there a reason for the special order of \offset arguments? I would prefer > \offset Beam positions #'(2 . 3) > or—even better because there would be no confusion with \override— > \offset Beam.positions #'(2 . 3) > instead

Producing scores for the diatonic accordion

Hello folks, A friend of mine would like to produce scores with the fingerings for his F diatonic accordion. In the « Score for diatonic accordion » example in the snippets, it is not shown how: AccordionTabTwoCBesDur = { % pull 1 %8 8 8 | 8 8

Re: Tie/Accidental Collision

Hi Simon, I understand. Let me ask you then, where should this behavior be documented? Perhaps in the section about modifying shapes in the Notation Reference? Currently it states: > Known issues and warnings > > It is not

Re: get current bar number

On 23/03/18 06:21, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote: > If you are going to write an engraver you can find some informations in > the archive. Also look at the rehearsal mark engraver. One of the options is to use the bar number as the rehearsal mark, so that might give you some ideas. Cheers, Wol

Re: Tie/Accidental Collision

On 23.03.2018 02:40, Stefano Troncaro wrote: I really think that information should be available in the tie-column-interface section of the Internals Reference. The explanation could

Re: Add interval to selection - Frescobaldi snippet

Many thanks for the link, both lsr-snippets are quite useful indeed. Ideally I had a Frescobaldi snippet/script in mind that would actually change the written Lilypond text/file directly. So one could select some music and press a hotkey to run a script which writes/replaces the selection with

Re: Problem downloading latest version.

Thank you Phil. It worked. Best regards, Robert On 23 Mar 2018, at 10:14 , Phil Holmes wrote: > http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Problem downloading latest version.

Try http://lilypond.org/downloads/binaries/ -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: Robert Blackstone To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:04 AM Subject: Problem downloading latest version. Good morning, I vainly tried to download and install

Problem downloading latest version.

Good morning, I vainly tried to download and install on my Mac the latest development version of LilyPond from http://lilypond.org/development.html. The download link: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/darwin-x86/lilypond-2.19.81-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2 lead to page that

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

I would agree with those who counsel paper and pencil for the compositional process itself. I would also argue that developing the link between notation and your inner ear is extremely helpful if you're going to use notation, and that software with playback features can be counterproductive in

Re: Is lilypond really suitable for composing?

I as a singer/songwriter with limited notational skills also use pen and staff paper for the first draft(s) but then need a tool that lets me hear if I got the rhythm right. (Even if that’s always a matter of interpretation and may change in every verse.) And as a quality aware typesetter and a

Re: get current bar number

Hi Kevin, yes, you need to get a context object. If you want to use it inside some music expression \applyContext is the key: doSomething = \applyContext #(lambda (context) (display