Re: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Scott
Ray Peck wrote: How about using GIMP to capture the images and create any efficient image file you want to insert into your OpenOffice document? I'm using GIMP for some things, but I want to avoid using pixmaps as much as possible, and I want to be able to edit the pasted-in image

Re: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Ray Peck wrote: How about using GIMP to capture the images and create any efficient image file you want to insert into your OpenOffice document? Here is an OpenOffice Writer document doing what you described with a JPEG which I believe is not proprietary. It was

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Peck
That would be Insert/Graphic/From File but you knew that. Yeah. If insert/graphic/from file would accept SVG than I'd be cruisin'. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
Maybe you want to read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html I first read that over 10 years ago, thanks. ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't Denemo a GUI front end for Lilypond? Yes, but it is not the GUI. Denemo development has been stagnant for a year or so now. If you need a GUI, you can try RoseGarden (rosegarden.sf.net) or Noteedit

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Ray Peck
- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:22 PM To: Ray Peck Cc: 'Jan Nieuwenhuizen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't Denemo a GUI front end for Lilypond? Yes, but it is not the GUI

Re: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ray Peck wrote: ... BTW, I loaded those two sample sodipodi svg files into the Adobe Reader. It renders partially, but it shows bounding boxes where noteheads should be. Am I missing a font? Certainly! Goto the Lilypond web page, click on Search, and search for sodipodi in the

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Guido Amoruso
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 00:24, Ray Peck wrote: BTW, I loaded those two sample sodipodi svg files into the Adobe Reader. It renders partially, but it shows bounding boxes where noteheads should be. Am I missing a font? Yes, I thik you are missing some pfa (perhaps...) fonts. I think Adobe Viewer

Re: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Scott
Ray Peck wrote: Hi! I'm writing a document on music theory and New Standard Tuning (Robert Fripp's fifths-based guitar tuning). The first version of this was done with Word and Visio (hiss!); the new version is in OpenOffice. I'm adding notation to the new version of the doc (the first

Re: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ray Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want the images to scale (I don't want pixmaps). I guess EPS is possible, but that seems like heavy overkill for the dozens of little musical fragments that I want to build. EPS should be fine. Why do you feel that's overkill? From what I've been

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
EPS should be fine. Why do you feel that's overkill? I've used EPS in the past, but always found it to be slow and buggy. Perhaps this is no longer true? I also am hoping for a simple workflow more along the lines of copy and paste than render and import. I also would like to have a single

Re: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ray Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've used EPS in the past, but always found it to be slow and buggy. Perhaps this is no longer true? EPS is just PostScript without page definitions and a trailing showpage. It's never been slow or buggy, but possibly you've used/had to use slow or buggy

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
ie, a procedure that can't be automated, nor checked, and with no chance of recovery when (not if) the word processor fails. The horror... Not at all. OpenOffice's native format is XML. If everything went to hell, I can always get the data out with XSLT or parse it info Jdom and do whatever I

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adobe reader is not free software; I couldn't care less. Second, I asked about whether Adobe's SVG reader can read the output as a measure of the state of the SVG output and nothing else. The only way to find out is to try out for yourself, since I don't have

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
Oh, wait, you could import the music as bitmaps, but that's probably not what you meant, right? Yeah. That would be An Abomination. ;-) 3. It is very likely that contributions to the project I'm working on will come from people to whom OpenOffice or Word will be a challenge; TeX is out of

RE: Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-04 Thread Ray Peck
If you want, I can send you a .sodipodi file. Sure, that would be swell. It would be most useful if you could send a real musical example from Lilypond, plus a very simple drawing example (e.g., a couple lines, a circle, a few characters of text). I'll compare the XML to what I find in OO and

Using Lilypond with OpenOffice?

2002-12-03 Thread Ray Peck
Hi! I'm writing a document on music theory and New Standard Tuning (Robert Fripp's fifths-based guitar tuning). The first version of this was done with Word and Visio (hiss!); the new version is in OpenOffice. I'm adding notation to the new version of the doc (the first version only had