Re: optical recognition for input

2022-01-17 Thread James B. Wilkinson
> On Jan 17, 2022, at 5:04 PM, Adam M. Griggs wrote: > > I haven't tried building from development branch, but from experience, the > stable branch only works with JRE 11, not "11 or greater." Yes, I did use the default stable branch. > I use MX Linux and JRE 11 is readily available. Not

Re: optical recognition for input

2022-01-17 Thread James B. Wilkinson
> On Jan 15, 2022, at 4:56 AM, Adam M. Griggs wrote: > > Try Audiveris. I downloaded the stuff from git but had failure at the build step. I looked for a mail group like this one for Audiveris but didn't find anything. Can somebody point me to a source of help building Audiveris? thanks

optical recognition for input

2022-01-15 Thread James B. Wilkinson
I'm looking at getting an OCR program to recognize scans in pdf files and create MusicXML files representing the contents. I would then use the musicxml2ly or perhaps some other script to translate the MusicXML to Lilypond files, I imagine that some of you are already doing this, and I wonder

Re: Lilypond's English Horn MIDI instrument is non-transposing?

2022-01-14 Thread James B. Wilkinson
> On Jan 14, 2022, at 6:37 PM, Valentin Petzel wrote: > > ... > Lilypond uses these GM names, which makes Lilypond a somewhat GM compatible > source. This means that as long as we use a GM compatible synth everything > should have the right sound. I was using VLC to play it. Does this mean

Lilypond's English Horn MIDI instrument is non-transposing?

2022-01-13 Thread James B. Wilkinson
I'm working on an arrangement fordable-reed quartet. Here's the score block: \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff = "oboe1" \with { instrumentName = "oboe1" midiInstrument = "oboe" } { \clef "treble" \soprano } \new Staff = "oboe2" \with { instrumentName = "oboe2"

Scheme doesn't check for missspeeled variable names???

2021-07-20 Thread James B. Wilkinson
I fat-fingered the keyboard on my laptop and got this: flute-notes = { \override BreathingSigh.Y-offset = #2.6 %% also tried #5.0 and some really big numbers; no effect 7 bars of music in 4/4 } AND I never got an error message. This seems to mean that Scheme has no

Re: errors when updating syntax

2021-01-29 Thread James B . Wilkinson
lily > On Jan 29, 2021, at 12:37 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> I got a .ly file claiming to be version 2.18.0 and opened it in LP version >> 2.22.0-1. When I did “Update syntax” I got these errors, and the version in >> the file did not change. >> >> >> [Image showing AttributeError:

errors when updating syntax

2021-01-25 Thread James B. Wilkinson
I got a .ly file claiming to be version 2.18.0 and opened it in LP version 2.22.0-1. When I did “Update syntax” I got these errors, and the version in the file did not change. I can typeset the file with no problems. I thought you should know.