M Watts <[email protected]> wrote on 02/04/2010 05:18:40 AM: > > > I have to admit - I tried it and it's not easy to get a staff to conform > > to a circle, for example. Maybe someone else can. My Inkscape skills are > > weak, though I love the software. > > > > > Not sure how to wrap the entire staff in a circle, but you can easily > draw a circular staff in Inkscape:- > > Draw a circle (F5) with Ctrl held down, 115 px in size; > > Get outline only by Ctrl+Shift+F, click the X under Fill, and flat color
> (2nd left) under Stroke paint (or click the X near bottom left of > window, and Shift-click a coler for line color); > > Clone it 4 times (Alt + D); > > Hit F1 and make sure the circle and all clones are selected by drawing a > selection box around the circle (the status bar will tell you if they're > all selected; you anly see the top one); > > Open the Transform dialog (Shift+Ctrl+M), go Scale, width & height both > 110%, and make sure 'Scale proportionally' and 'Apply to each object > separately' are both checked. > > Click Apply :) > > Btw, Inkscape has layers -- use them if you don't want to be constantly > dragging the wrong notes and whatnot around. > Thanks, but this I could do, if I wanted to. What I'd rather do is typeset the piece entirely in Lilypond, *then* warp and twist it, clone it, shade it, blur it, etc. with Inkscape. I know it can be done, I just lack the Inkscape-fu to do some of those things, specifically the first one. Bertalan's trick is also very cool, but requires a lot of tweaking to get the stems at the correct angles, etc., and isn't very flexible. Tim Reeves _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
