Re: Discussion: automatic engraving and single-source publishing

2013-11-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/11/27 Noeck noeck.marb...@gmx.de: 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 #')! You're welcome! And i join the

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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