HI Knute; I have visited (and bookmarked) the URL you mentioned here. It is very nice.
Thanks, Ken On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:25 AM Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wanted to add that there is a wonderful site -- > https://blackstock.media/ -- that incorporates The Mutopia Project > (and more) with some nice interactive widgets. Check it out. > > -- > Knute Snortum > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 7:17 AM Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 12:26 PM Kenneth Wolcott > > <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Beginner (nine months) at Lilypond, interested in helping > > > converting/updating Mutopia works... > > > > Hello and welcome! I didn't want this email to go unanswered. The > > Mutopia Project is in transition, to put it mildly. New submissions > > have been backlogged for a year or so. However, there has been some > > interest in starting them up again, or moving to a similar site. I > > think you should definitely get music ready to submit to Mutopia, but > > I don't want you to be surprised if your submissions don't show up on > > the site for a while. > > > > > I've been experimenting with Lilypond for less than a year, > > > downloading some works already engraved and trying to engrave them > > > with Lilypond. I have learned most of the elementary aspects of > > > Lilypond now. I'm still working on many aspects of Lilypond that I do > > > not yet understand. > > > > Lilypond has a mailing list you can join: > > https://lilypond.org/contact.html. It's fairly high in the amount of > > email you get, so I would recommend using an email filter. The people > > there are often experts at what they do, but simple questions are > > welcomed if they are well thought out. (Don't, for instance, post: > > "It doesn't work.") > > > > > I recently started downloading both Lilypond source and pdf (Letter) > > > engraved music from Mutopia (mostly Bach and Mozart). I have tried > > > using convert-ly (both version 2.20.0 and 2.22.0 of Lilypond), > > > capturing/saving the output and trying to understand the warnings that > > > sometimes occur. I subsequently try to engrave the converted Lilypond > > > source. Most often there is success, sometimes there is something > > > that goes a bit awry. I am learning, slowly, how to manually perform > > > conversions that convert-ly was not able to do (which the convert-ly > > > did report). > > > > The Mutopia Project has some very old versions of Lilypond that are > > difficult to convert to a modern version, as you've seen. Submitting > > updated versions of old submissions is a valid and welcomed activity. > > > > > As I get a bit better at doing this, I'd like to contribute to > > > Mutopia by performing some of these conversion updates and providing > > > the updated Lilypond source, trying to make the pdf output look as > > > close to as accurate to the Mutopia Lilypond engraver's pdf. I do not > > > think I am ready to perform this action just yet, but I'd like to be > > > able to do so soon. > > > > > > I really appreciate the works that already exist on Mutopia. I > > > think that this is not only a great resource for high quality engraved > > > music, but a great educational resource for the engraving process > > > itself. > > > > I agree, and hopefully there will be some movement in getting The > > Mutopia Project back up and running -- or a similar site. > > > > > Ken Wolcott > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mutopia-discuss mailing list > > > Mutopia-discuss@mutopiaproject.org > > > http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/mailman/listinfo/mutopia-discuss > > > > > > -- > > Knute Snortum _______________________________________________ Mutopia-discuss mailing list Mutopia-discuss@mutopiaproject.org http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/mailman/listinfo/mutopia-discuss
