Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Hello Hwaen, The only templates section as far as I can say is the vocal ensembles templates section in the learning manual. The LSR at https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=midi is quite useful, but contains advanced examples regarding MIDI. > Le

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Greetings Jacques, Admittedly, I cannot find it at the moment, but is there not already a Templates section? Perhaps these additions could be added to that? HC On 2/14/22, Jacques Menu wrote: > Another approach could be to add a new first chapter, maybe named > “Discovering LilyPond”,

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Another approach could be to add a new first chapter, maybe named “Discovering LilyPond”, containing a handful of examples without much commentary. Those could illustrate various features such as <<…>> without a \score around, \score, \book, chords and lyrics, as well as PDF, SVG and MIDI

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

> I rather like the idea of there being a section in the documentation > for visually impaired users; I would even be willing to help > contribute to such a section. Excellent, and thanks for the offer. If you find time to write such a section, simply send your suggested text to this list,

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

A lot of good points. I rather like the idea of there being a section in the documentation for visually impaired users; I would even be willing to help contribute to such a section. On 2/13/22, Kevin Cole wrote: > Of possible interest: > > MusicXML to braille music conversion (sent to this

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Of possible interest: MusicXML to braille music conversion (sent to this mailing list Jan 2020) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-01/msg00418.html and also: Braille music translation system (BrailleMUSE v5.62pp20210208) from MusicXML to Braille score

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Greetings Tyler, I would gently suggest that, when asking for help or making critical suggestions, not to simultaneously accuse people whom you do not know of cardinal faults. Likewise, it is not wise to assume that all people in a certain situation operate or think in the same way; I too am

Re: Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Hello Tyler, Are the defaults biased against people with visual disabilities? I’d say no. They are maybe not perfect, but there is surely no intent to make it harder for people with visual disabilities to use it. If just has never been a major concern for the small set of developers. Also I

Blind and visually impaired users learning LilyPond

Hello, I am a proud blind musician and composer. I first tried LilyPond in 2017; I found it after Googling things like "text-based music generator" and "text-based music format", because that was a lifelong dream of mine, to edit MIDI in a text editor-friendly format and then convert to standard