Re: XML import (WAS: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond)

2017-08-15 Thread Francisco Vila
On 15/08/17 20:55, Francisco Vila wrote: > All in all, one of the most usefulness of LilyPond is completely lost, > which is to make beautifully typeset music automatically from a terse, > meaningful symbolic language. > It must be said, however, that a blind Spanish user today told me that somethi

Re: XML import (WAS: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond)

2017-08-15 Thread Francisco Vila
On 15/08/17 20:25, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: > Hello Francisco, > >> - The converted code has \stemUp and \stemDown in every single note, >> which had to be searched and replaced. Also all articulations are >> forced up or down. > > Don’t know why musicxml2ly recently enforced such behavior, with

Re: XML import (WAS: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond)

2017-08-15 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Francisco, > - The converted code has \stemUp and \stemDown in every single note, which > had to be searched and replaced. Also all articulations are forced up or > down. Don’t know why musicxml2ly recently enforced such behavior, without any option to prevent it. The same holds for \po

Re: XML import (WAS: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond)

2017-08-15 Thread Francisco Vila
On 15/08/17 15:01, Richard Shann wrote: > I agree with this advice, which is why Denemo's MusicXML is still so > primitive. It has a few hiccups but it ignores most of what is not the > the music per se but is instead decisions about how the music should > look. I think LilyPond would be well serve

Re: XML import (WAS: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond)

2017-08-15 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 13:25 +0200, Francisco Vila wrote: > From my work on Daahoud Salim's sextet, I can tell to those interested > some things to do and some not to. Today I am focusing on the XML > import alone. > > Long story short: avoid it. [...] > > My advice to all copyists is: unless you

XML import (WAS: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond)

2017-08-15 Thread Francisco Vila
>From my work on Daahoud Salim's sextet, I can tell to those interested some things to do and some not to. Today I am focusing on the XML import alone. Long story short: avoid it. This is a very small piece when compared to dozens of huge works we all in the list have seen on the years, but it is