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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