Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, recently I wrote that LilyPond input files - being plain text - are a quite natural choice for single-source or cross-media publishing. However, I'm not so sure anymore that this is really true (yet). When finishing a LilyPond score to publication quality there is quite a lot of tweaking

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska m...@ursliska.de writes: Hi, recently I wrote that LilyPond input files - being plain text - are a quite natural choice for single-source or cross-media publishing. However, I'm not so sure anymore that this is really true (yet). When finishing a LilyPond score to publication

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: Sure. For that reason, I consider much of the time spent on tweaking and tweaking tools a waste of lifetime better spent on trying to get the automatisms right. Of course, that option is harder and requires different resources. But it only needs to be done once. Yes,

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 11:31, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: We used to have an experimental `tweak editor' that would store tweaks a in a separate tweaks file. In some way it would be a nice intermediate to put all manual tweaks in a separate file and merge them with the actual source. It would be good to

Re: Extending lyric extender

2013-11-26 Thread Yann
Two observations: 1. The “\set associatedVoice” needs to before the syllable PRIOR to the one you actually want to “switch” to the new voice — one of my least favourite things in Lilypond. 2. The X-offset tweak is to avoid the weird shift of the text (to match the shift of the note in

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hello all, I am used to this topic. And I made up my own tool, which is working for me, but should be called experimental. I always hesitate to post my github link, because its not well formed/documented and a mixup of totally different things ... but there is one engraver, which actually deals

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Caio Barros
2013/11/26 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org A way to permanently separate music source from tweaks would be a good thing IMO. Separating content from appearance. If that would be possible one could switch a set of tweaks (i.e. different target formats) together with the different layout style

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 11:35 +0100, Urs Liska wrote: Am 26.11.2013 11:31, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: We used to have an experimental `tweak editor' that would store tweaks a in a separate tweaks file. In some way it would be a nice intermediate to put all manual tweaks in a separate file

An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Jan Rosseel
Dear LilyPonders, In about two weeks' time, SCORA will make its premiere with the Leuven Alumni Orchestra (Leuven, BE). Dates are 14 December (20:15) and 15 December (15:00) SCORA is a synchronised system for letting orchestra's play from displays/tablets. The rendering is based on

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 26.11.2013 11:31, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: Sure. For that reason, I consider much of the time spent on tweaking and tweaking tools a waste of lifetime better spent on trying to get the automatisms right. Of course, that option is harder and requires different resources. But it only

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Philippe Massart
Hello, Nice. I'm not sure I can be present, but it's anyway a interesting project. Regarding Rachmaninov, his work will enter public domain in Belgium (and most of European countries) in a few weeks, the January 1st following the 70th anniversary of his death. Philippe Le 26 nov. 2013 à

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Philippe Massart phili...@philmassart.net writes: Hello, Nice. I'm not sure I can be present, but it's anyway a interesting project. Regarding Rachmaninov, his work will enter public domain in Belgium (and most of European countries) in a few weeks, the January 1st following the 70th

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 14:12, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: Am 26.11.2013 11:31, schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: Sure. For that reason, I consider much of the time spent on tweaking and tweaking tools a waste of lifetime better spent on trying to get the automatisms right. Of course, that option is harder and

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, we should also work on good interfaces for tweaking the engraving *and* on interfaces to separate content and design. In my former answer to Urs' post, I talked about the engraver I use. Here's the idea behind it again: - I have my music stored, to recall it when I actually engrave

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/26/13 6:12 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: In my former answer to Urs' post, I talked about the engraver I use. Here's the idea behind it again: - I have my music stored, to recall it when I actually engrave it. - I want to be able to say: Modify item x in measure n on moment

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 14:41, schrieb Carl Sorensen: It's more complex than having a single file that can be correctly processed by lilypond, but it's doable with today's tools. Do you have actual experience how this setup behaves when you have to update the content? Having the branches like you do

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 26.11.2013 14:28, schrieb Urs Liska: In what way do you consider it experimental? I don't like the current way of addressing the contexts. I still have to first look in the created *.edition.log file, to see, under which path the context is addressed. This is OK for me, but I don't know, how

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu writes: On 11/26/13 6:12 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: In my former answer to Urs' post, I talked about the engraver I use. Here's the idea behind it again: - I have my music stored, to recall it when I actually engrave it. - I want to be able to

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 26.11.2013 14:41, schrieb Carl Sorensen: In my former answer to Urs' post, I talked about the engraver I use. Here's the idea behind it again: - I have my music stored, to recall it when I actually engrave it. - I want to be able to say: Modify item x in measure n on moment m with

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 26.11.2013 15:04, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: and right docs sooon I meant write docs soon ... ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jan-Peter (et al.), Most times I was able to use (once) override or set, which are supported. Also supported are break and pageBreak. But if one wants to edit one notehead (or Accidental) of a chord, it seems not possible right now. I probably will introduce an interface for that kind of

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 26/11/13 11:01, David Kastrup wrote: Sure. For that reason, I consider much of the time spent on tweaking and tweaking tools a waste of lifetime better spent on trying to get the automatisms right. Of course, that option is harder and requires different resources. But it only needs to be

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: I think that you personally are quite right to focus your efforts on automation, but it doesn't mean that the efforts to build friendly tweaking tools are a waste of time or resources ill-spent. The problem is not with the friendly

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com: Dear LilyPonders, SCORA is a synchronised system for letting orchestra’s play from displays/tablets. The rendering is based on Lilypond, for various reasons. One of them being the quality of the rendering for which I do get very positive feedback.

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Philippe Massart phili...@philmassart.net writes: Regarding Rachmaninov, his work will enter public domain in Belgium (and most of European countries) in a few weeks, the January 1st following the 70th anniversary of his death. The new trade law treaty

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 16:35, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Aah, this is wondeful! Sibelius being engraved by LilyPond;-) LOL ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Philippe Massart phili...@philmassart.net writes: Regarding Rachmaninov, his work will enter public domain in Belgium (and most of European countries) in a few weeks, the January 1st following the 70th

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Marcos Press
One World! 2013/11/26 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Philippe Massart phili...@philmassart.net writes: Regarding Rachmaninov, his work will enter public domain in Belgium (and most of European countries) in a few weeks, the January 1st

RE: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Jan Rosseel
The program: [...] Jean Sibelius – 5th Symphony Aah, this is wondeful! Sibelius being engraved by LilyPond ;-) Janek I can assure you this gave nice babylonic situations when discussing the engraving process with people. I always had to clarify whether I was talking about Sibelius

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com: The program: [...] Jean Sibelius – 5th Symphony Aah, this is wondeful! Sibelius being engraved by LilyPond ;-) Finale included! -- David Kastrup ___

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com: The program: [...] Jean Sibelius – 5th Symphony Aah, this is wondeful! Sibelius being engraved by LilyPond ;-) Finale included! Take a look at the Finale of

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Ryan McClure
If only we could make a pun of MuseScore On 11/26/2013 10:49 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com: The program: [...] Jean Sibelius – 5th Symphony Aah, this is wondeful!

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread David Nalesnik
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Ryan McClure ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.comwrote: If only we could make a pun of MuseScore Yeah, that would be NoteWorthy. Sorry. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 16:49, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 Jan Rosseel j...@rosseel.com: The program: [...] Jean Sibelius – 5th Symphony Aah, this is wondeful! Sibelius being engraved by LilyPond ;-) Finale

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Marcos Press tdy.p...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Philippe Massart phili...@philmassart.net writes: Regarding Rachmaninov, his work will enter public domain in Belgium (and most of European countries) in a few

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, On 26.11.2013 15:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote: As someone who is experimenting with polymetric music (i.e., with non-aligned bar lines), please consider — and try to handle gracefully — such situations. (That is to say, “measure-moment-context” must be Voice-, or at least Staff-,

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/26/13 6:45 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 26.11.2013 14:41, schrieb Carl Sorensen: It's more complex than having a single file that can be correctly processed by lilypond, but it's doable with today's tools. Do you have actual experience how this setup behaves when you

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 17:16, schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 11/26/13 6:45 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 26.11.2013 14:41, schrieb Carl Sorensen: It's more complex than having a single file that can be correctly processed by lilypond, but it's doable with today's tools. Do you have actual

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, The number we want to be talking about is maybe a tweak every few pages. A friendly tweaking tool is still nice for that, but it's not as important than when you are doing a hundred tweaks per page. But if we are talking about a hundred tweaks per page, it is extremely unlikely

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca writes: Hi all, The number we want to be talking about is maybe a tweak every few pages. A friendly tweaking tool is still nice for that, but it's not as important than when you are doing a hundred tweaks per page. But if we are talking about

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 Urs Liska m...@ursliska.de: When finishing a LilyPond score to publication quality there is quite a lot of tweaking involved - as you can see from Janek's recent posts on lilypondblog.org. And this tweaking makes the engraving very specific, actually it's only valid for a specific

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: On 11/26/13 6:45 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 26.11.2013 14:41, schrieb Carl Sorensen: It's more complex than having a single file that can be correctly processed by lilypond, but it's doable with today's tools. Do you have actual

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: My complex versioning strategy (as Urs correctly called it) is to put the music in a git repository, with a branch for content, and then a separate branch for each edition. The branches for each edition are maintained to be one commit away from the

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: I think that you personally are quite right to focus your efforts on automation, but it doesn't mean that the efforts to build friendly tweaking tools are a waste of time or resources

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.11.2013 18:12, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Bottom line: after \shaping 1000 slurs, i got really bored and improved \shape. After using it for the next 500 slurs, i expect to get really bored again and fix some issues in slur formatting that will bother me the most - because i'll be_personally

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: But if we are talking about a hundred tweaks per page, it is extremely unlikely that those tweaks are _not_ dealing with systematic problems, and dealing with systematic problems is something that the

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11/26/2013 08:55 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Ryan McClure ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.com mailto:ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.com wrote: If only we could make a pun of MuseScore Yeah, that would be NoteWorthy. A nod of respect from Alberta! --

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Marcos Press
I'm completly with you! The thing is Trade Treaties means there are ownership discussion. I do respect Authors but Ownership is a little different. Corporates rats exist everywhere and from any origen. Even here in Argentina (South-East American continent). To stop rats for doing their lifes in

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/26/13 9:50 AM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/11/26 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: This isn't as big a problem as it could be because I don't get to the tweaks until the content is reasonably settled. I was thinking about such setup, too. But the problem that i

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread Adrian Fernandez
Marcos! Otro usuario argentino de Lilypond! Saludos!!! Marcos! Another argentinian user of Lilypond!!! Greets! 2013/11/26 Marcos Press tdy.p...@gmail.com I'm completly with you! The thing is Trade Treaties means there are ownership discussion. I do respect Authors but Ownership is a little

Filling empty space in inline lyrics with dots?

2013-11-26 Thread tapani
I frequently typeset psalm chants, where the number of words per reciting note vary from one verse to another. To help the singers keep their eyes on the correct line of lyrics, I would like to fill empty space with a line of dots, like in the index of a book, like so: The earth is the Lord's,

Default bar numbers

2013-11-26 Thread Patrick or Cynthia Karl
Even though the default is for bar numbers to be printed at the beginning of every line of a piece except the first one, there are circumstances where a bar number is not printed at the beginning of a non-initial line. For example, the following snippet generates two lines, but the second

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread flup2
I was aware of the project to bump the entry in public domain, but until now, all I heard was about related rights (performer, producer, etc.) and not authors. Philippe -- View this message in context:

Re: Default bar numbers

2013-11-26 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi, the break happens in the middle of a measure. The break is possible here, because there is an implicit repeat barline. To let the barnumber show up, you can do an override at the next barline. Am 26.11.2013 20:32, schrieb Patrick or Cynthia Karl: Even though the default is for bar

RE: MultiMeasureRestNumber centered between staves

2013-11-26 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Daniel Rosen Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:54 AM To: 'Ryan McClure'; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: RE: MultiMeasureRestNumber centered between staves From: Ryan McClure [mailto:ryanmichaelmccl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:00 PM

Re: MultiMeasureRestNumber centered between staves

2013-11-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Daniel, Eh. I appreciate the response, but it's not very elegant... I'd prefer it to be more automatic. Does such a solution not exist? Bump. I assume you found this? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-10/msg00293.html Just in case it helps… Kieren.

RE: MultiMeasureRestNumber centered between staves

2013-11-26 Thread Daniel Rosen
-Original Message- From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:23 PM To: Daniel Rosen Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: MultiMeasureRestNumber centered between staves Hi Daniel, I assume you found this?

Re: An invitation to a LilyPond powered concert

2013-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
flup2 phili...@philmassart.net writes: I was aware of the project to bump the entry in public domain, but until now, all I heard was about related rights (performer, producer, etc.) and not authors. See URL:https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp Expand Copyright Terms: Create copyright terms

Re: Text above chord names

2013-11-26 Thread Adrian Fernandez
Works great! Thank you very much Thomas!!! 2013/11/22 Adrian Fernandez adrianfernandezfa...@gmail.com Thanks Thomas!!! i'll give it a try 2013/11/21 Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@gmail.com 2013/11/21 Adrian Fernandez adrianfernandezfa...@gmail.com: Hi! excuse my bad english. How can I

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: 2013/11/26 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: But if we are talking about a hundred tweaks per page, it is extremely unlikely that those tweaks are _not_ dealing with systematic problems, and dealing with

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-11-26 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/11/25 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com If you'd like to help with getting bend stuff and LilyJAZZ into openlilylib/snippets that would be absolutely awesome! We accept pull requests on github, or you could send us patches. If you don't feel comfortable with such workflows, It

Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-26 Thread Noeck
Hi Just a quick but honest thank you from my side to all of you for improving the out-of-the-box quality, tweaking-possibilities (e.g. \shape) and simplifications for users (e.g. the.dot.syntax instead of #')! I think, the blog posts show that there is still room for improvements to the

how to set this voice-crossing situation ?

2013-11-26 Thread Keith OHara
Dear LilyPond users, Ryan posed a question on the bug-report list regarding how to set the example in the attached image, with the repeats written out. You see the new voice is written conceptually as the upper voice, although it is lower in pitch than the voice being repeated in the percents.

Re: how to set this voice-crossing situation ?

2013-11-26 Thread Mike Solomon
On Nov 27, 2013, at 6:19 AM, Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net wrote: Dear LilyPond users, Ryan posed a question on the bug-report list regarding how to set the example in the attached image, with the repeats written out. You see the new voice is written conceptually as the upper voice,

Re: Cross-staff Glissando Stencil Error

2013-11-26 Thread Keith OHara
Piaras Hoban phoban01 at gmail.com writes: Thanks so much for this; works really well. Is the wrapper-function functionality explained anywhere in the docs? The closest is http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/extending/callback-functions where a function references the 'direction of a