Janek: > So, how do you like the new location and graphic design? I saw a lot > of visitors after the announcement, but there were very few > comments...
I'm fine with the new locataion and design. /// In your "Less blatant marketing, please?" you seen to focus on the wrong thing: In the finale blog, you could have picked up: "The two books collectively consist of four basic layouts: 0/1 combination tables (where 0 and 1 express silence and sound), rest/note combination tables, single staff music measures, and multi-staff music measures. The 0/1 tables were created in InDesign, the layout program where all the Finale files were eventually imported and placed as TIFF files. Can't indesign handle vector graphics, or why did he use tiff files (bitmaps). This seem to be a flaw in his workflow. The single staff music measures were created to present the patterns generated in the combination tables. Each vertical measure line had to be aligned manually to create a symmetrical appearance on the page. The multi-staff music measures in Vol. II were created to present identical patterns written in different metric contexts (e.g., 4/2, 4/4, 4/8, 4/16, 4/32). "had to be alignend manually", why was that nessesary ? Is is the wrong tools, or did he not know how to use the tools? /// If you look at: http://downloads2.makemusic.com/blog/elementsv1-p221.pdf & from his "Binary Theory and Creation of the Fundamental Rhythm Patterns", you'll see that the table is simply a pattern = 0x00E0; // where each bit '1' is 64th note, '0' 64 pause while ( pattern < 0xFF ) { print_top7bits(pattern); print_byte(pattern); pattern++; print_byte(pattern); pattern++; next_line(); } make_box(); How hard would that to do in lilypond ? /// If you look at his http://downloads2.makemusic.com/blog/elementsv2-p79.pdf the exercise 19 and 20 are similar to the above, a = 0x48; make_exercise( number, a ) { music = { \time 7/2 } add_measure( music, a ) add_measure( music, ++a ) add_measure( music, ++a ) add_measure( music, ++a ) \mark\markup { \box number } print_music(music); } make_exercise( 19, 0x48 ); make_exercise( 20, 0x48+4 ); If the rest of his book is like that, it wouldn't seem unreasonable that the exercises could be generated from just a modest set of lilypond code. /// And BTW, what is "rhythm pattern theory" ? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory : A theory is not the same as a hypothesis, as a theory is a 'proven' hypothesis, that, in other words, has never been disproved through experiment, and has a basis in fact.) Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user