Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Metatype1 is hosted on a polish server: > > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/metatype1 At the time I did the transition to mf2pt1, I had compared the various approaches of converting METAFONT outlines to Type1 fonts. mf2pt1 appeared as the most straightforward approach, much easier th

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 22 February 2012 18:36, David Kastrup wrote: > > Looks like I sloppily considered Metatype and Metatype1 the same > project. The download README is from 2009, and there have been a number > of fonts produced using it. > http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/metatype1> > > The Polish TeX

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that >> (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a me

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/22/12 10:17 AM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" wrote: >On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that >> (shudder) generates .pe s

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that > (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a > Type 1 fo

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a Type 1 font.  I guess that could be done more concisely directly as >>>

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that >>> (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a >>> Type 1 font.  I guess that could be done more concisely directly as >>> a python script. >> >> This sou

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-22 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that >> (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a >> Type 1 font. I guess that could be done more concisely directly as >> a python script. > > This sounds like a very nice addition. Mayb

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that > (shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a > Type 1 font. I guess that could be done more concisely directly as > a python script. This sounds like a very nice addition. Maybe generating Python should be t

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > In another thread Han-Wen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >> Also, nowadays, fontforge supports Python scripting. We could redo all >> the craziness involving generated files and legacy .pe scripts in >> p

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:41 PM, pls wrote: > Yes, you're right.  But I'd say the other results are also interesting > because they show that the same .xml-file is represented differently by > different notation softwares (e.g. concerning page breaks , lyrics...) Sure; it's far from being perf

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-21 Thread pls
Am 21.02.2012 um 22:04 schrieb Janek Warchoł: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, pls wrote: >> >> Am 16.02.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys >>> What happens if you take a fully formatted file from Finale and load >>> it into Sibelius via the musicxml route, and the reverse? Is anyone >>>

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Please give your suggested projects. In another thread Han-Wen wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Also, nowadays, fontforge supports Python scripting. We could redo all > the craziness involving generated fi

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, pls wrote: > > Am 16.02.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys >> What happens if you take a fully formatted file from Finale and load >> it into Sibelius via the musicxml route, and the reverse? Is anyone >> able to post the before and after PDFs of such a transit

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-16 Thread pls
Am 16.02.2012 um 13:25 schrieb catch...@philholmes.me.uk: > Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys : > >> What happens if you take a fully formatted file from Finale and load >> it into Sibelius via the musicxml route, and the reverse? Is anyone >> able to post the before and after PDFs of such a transition?

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-16 Thread catchall
Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys : What happens if you take a fully formatted file from Finale and load it into Sibelius via the musicxml route, and the reverse? Is anyone able to post the before and after PDFs of such a transition? Sibelius will not export in MusicXML format. ---

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > It is much easier to export just the music contents (in scheme, just > using the output of the iterators), but that solves only part of the > problem. To be able to provide solutions for composers in the > professional music publishing w

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 12/02/2012 12:51, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> 2) Adding comprehensive MusicXML import and export features, together >> > with test suites for it. Requirements: ? (no idea in which language >> > this would be written), MusicXML, basic LilyPond and music notation >> > knowledge; familiarity w

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 12/02/2012 15:13, Graham Percival wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:03:48PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> 2) Adding comprehensive MusicXML import and export features, together >> with test suites for it. Requirements: ? (no idea in which language >> this would be written), MusicXML, basic Li

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 12/02/2012 15:43, Janek Warchoł wrote: > W dniu 12 lutego 2012 15:13 użytkownik Graham Percival > napisał: >> umm, you know that we already have musicxml2ly import, right? > Yes. I had some issues with it - dynamics got attached to wrong > notes. The problem is that in LilyPond, each dynami

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 12/02/2012 12:03, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi all, > > SUMMARY: in order to participate in Google Summer of Code ($$$), we > need an Ideas List. > > (to learn more about GSoC, go here > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012) > > An Ideas List should be a list of suggested stu

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-14 Thread Łukasz Czerwiński
The list can be quite long. We don't have to limit it to 2 projects :) Łukasz On 13 February 2012 12:51, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Janek Warchoł > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > SUMMARY: in order to participate in Google Summer of Code ($$$), we > > need an Ideas L

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi all, > > SUMMARY: in order to participate in Google Summer of Code ($$$), we > need an Ideas List. I think the most interesting is probably #1 (grace note synchronization) and #2 (musicxml). Of those, I recommend #2 over #1, since the g

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
W dniu 12 lutego 2012 15:13 użytkownik Graham Percival napisał: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:03:48PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> 2) Adding comprehensive MusicXML import and export features, together >> with test suites for it.  Requirements: ? (no idea in which language >> this would be written

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:03:48PM +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote: > 2) Adding comprehensive MusicXML import and export features, together > with test suites for it. Requirements: ? (no idea in which language > this would be written), MusicXML, basic LilyPond and music notation > knowledge; familiarit

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
W dniu 12 lutego 2012 12:51 użytkownik m...@apollinemike.com napisał: > >> 3) Horizontal Spacing of Objects Attached to Notes, esp. Accidentals: >> make spacing depend on tightness of the music.  This is thoroughly >> explained in issues 2141, 2142, 2143 ans 2144.  Also, the >> infrastructure need

Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-12 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
All of these look good. On Feb 12, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > General student prerequisites: (basic?) git knowledge > > 1) Fixing problems with synchronization of grace notes, together with > all underlying architecture (issue 34). Requirements: C++, MIDI; > familiarity with basic

Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

2012-02-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi all, SUMMARY: in order to participate in Google Summer of Code ($$$), we need an Ideas List. (to learn more about GSoC, go here http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012) An Ideas List should be a list of suggested student projects. This list is meant to introduce contribut