Le mar. 27 janv. 2026 à 18:19, Yann <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hello all ! > > I've been working for some time with friends on songs/hymns engraving > and arrangement. Over the years I kinda developed or rather assembled > a custom framework (with a lot of benefit from various sources > including doc, LSR and useful tips and help from this list - thanks > !), in order to avoid duplicating common code, as most hymns can be > sorted into few different structures. > > The idea was also to be able to reuse parts of a song/hymn to build > several versions of them (right now I have lead-sheet, SATB and men > chorus), and to allow automatic compilation using a set of scripts and > makefiles. > > If I remember correctly, generic SATB templates were not existing in > Lilypond when I started, and later were lacking some features I wanted > (such as repeats, DC al Fine). The thing is in a usable state at least > for me, though a bit messy and not publicly available (no idea if this > would be of some help for others). > > Now I would like to build on my current framework to typeset some > arrangements, mainly for voices with small ensemble, keeping the same > philosophy: having common template files somewhere, avoid duplicate > code instantiating staves to focus on musical content and have some > kind of automated compiling. > > I could try to add these templates in my current framework, but I feel > that these arranged scores will be more varied than what I used > previously, i.e. lead-sheets and congregation SATB. Also I know that > others have developed some comparable tools over the years : > OrchestralLily (R. Kainhofer), lalily (JP Voigt), the nenuvar-lib (N. > Sceaux), and maybe some I'm not aware of. So if something is usable in > my case, I'm more than happy to use it rather than reinventing the > wheel. > > Any thought on this ? > From what I've seen online, some of these may not be maintained > anymore. Also, each time I look at them wanting to use them, I > struggled to find some entry point and document to start.
Hello all ! Sorry to revive this thread, if anybody has thoughts about these topics, I'd be interested to read, and also about your workflow and used tools for some of you who regularly write arrangements and use Lilypond to do so. Also, I've seen the arranger.ly library. Is it still maintained ? Cheers ! Yann
