Hi Jeff,

funny you say so, I thought about this as well, though I was not aware of the 
term ”lazy susan“ …

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Samstag, 16. März 2024, 19:42:56 CET schrieb Jeff Olson:
> Valentin,
> 
> How about modifying it so it's readable on a large circular table, i.e.,
> so that the segment closest to you (at the current bottom of the score)
> is right-side-up.
> 
> Then imagine placing the large score on a rotating server (Lazy Susan
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Susan>) so that N people around the
> table could sing an N-part round by rotating the score clockwise.
> 
> Perhaps a new "spin" on the four-part tablebook format used by Dowland?
> 
> Or has Lazy Susan format already been done?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 3/16/2024 10:29 AM, Leo Correia de Verdier wrote:
> > Wow!
> > 
> > That was truly amazing!
> > 
> > /Leo
> > 
> >> 16 mars 2024 kl. 16:46 skrev Valentin Petzel<[email protected]>:
> >> 
> >> Some time ago Jean posted this lovely proof of concept to the list for
> >> circular staves. I’ve revised this to handle stuff like multiple Staves,
> >> Spanners and Beams and such stuff. The result looks quite stunning in my
> >> opinion. Also the way the code now works each bit essentially only
> >> requires
> >> the a translation and orientation depending on the source position. In
> >> the
> >> next step I’ll try to change the interface so that System provides not an
> >> angle and a radius, but a procedures that takes any coordinate and
> >> returns a target coordinate as well as an orientation. This way this
> >> implementation should work as well for arbitary changes of coordinates.
> >> 
> >> A problem with this implementation is that we need a sufficiently wide
> >> paper for rendering the origin staff. This is usually much wider than
> >> what is required to fit the result. I’ve thought about doing the classic
> >> web designer trick and use negative page margins, but Lilypond does not
> >> think that this is a reasonable thing to do ...
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Valentin
> >> 
> >> Am Sonntag, 23. April 2023, 22:09:22 CET schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
> >>>> Le dimanche 23 avril 2023 à 12:37 +1000, Andrew Bernard a écrit :
> >>>> Just checking - you can't make circular staves with notes in lilypond,
> >>>> can you? I know you can do nice circle of fifths diagrams as per an LSR
> >>>> example, but circular staves are way out of scope, aren't they?
> >>>> 
> >>>> This came up in the Dorico forum and several users assert with no
> >>>> evidence or examples that lilypond can, so I wanted to check my view.
> >>> 
> >>> What exactly makes you think it is not possible, given the control
> >>> LilyPond
> >>> gives you on the notation via Scheme?
> >>> 
> >>> Attached is an include file showing that you can do basic circular
> >>> scores in <100 lines of straightforward Scheme code. This is a quickly
> >>> coded demo, it would need a bit of love to gracefully print beams or
> >>> ledger lines. (I won't invest that effort if the person is staying on
> >>> Dorico and not actually using it, though.)
> >> 
> >> <circular2.ly>
> >> <circular2.png>

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