Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2014-01-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Best, I suppose, would be to have a calculated default with a manual override option. =) Hi Kieren, I’m a bit late but: I did use LilyPond for long and complex scores (operas tend to be a LOT less complex

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2014-01-02 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave valen...@villenave.net writes: - Trust not only the program but the community. I can’t count the hundreds of times where I got stuck, angstily asked a crucial question and got my life-defining answer WITHIN MINUTES. Every roadblock I encountered evidently wasn’t _that_ much

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-28 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 27/12/2013 03:54, Kieren MacMillan disait : Hi Jean-Charles, Problem is that the reset occurs at _every_ book-part; you then cannot open a part on an act basis. There should be a property: \paper { first-page-number = 3 } That would solve it! =) Best would be to have it

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-28 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean-Charles, Best would be to have it “calculated I disagree: I would definitely want a non-calculated option, as I often have to set the page number manually. Best, I suppose, would be to have a calculated default with a manual override option. =) Cheers, Kieren.

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean-Charles, Problem is that the reset occurs at _every_ book-part; you then cannot open a part on an act basis. There should be a property: \paper { first-page-number = 3 } That would solve it! =) Cheers, Kieren. ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-23 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 22/12/2013 01:23, Kieren MacMillan disait : For Bach, thanks to David Nalesnik and Thomas Morley, a function to center an unique note and align it with R1\fermataMarkup (like in old scores). Nice! Is that part of the regular distro now? No. By the way, you've to be absolutely sure

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-22 Thread Alex Loomis
Would you mind explaining that code? My scheme is, alas, nearly nonexistent, and I have a project where I would like to change what is page one. On Dec 21, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Jean-Charles, Thanks for the response. Have you looked

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean-Charles, Thanks for the response. Have you looked at Nicolas Sceaux's works (http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/)? Yes… but I’ll do so again. Lily took care of everything. That’s good to know — Lily’s all I’ve been using to date (except for the odd “academic” paper). For Bach, thanks

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-17 Thread Urs Liska
Am 16.12.2013 22:59, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hello all! I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. First of all: I haven't done this yet. I've only recently prepared a book where music and text/other

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-17 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Kieren, I did a lot of choral pieces. In November there was a public performance of Der einhundertvierte Psalm of Engelhard Barthe (1906-1977, musician at St.Katharinen in Hamburg, Germany, until destruction in world war II) in Hamburg, where I produced (co-working with Barthe's family) all

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-17 Thread Mike Blackstock
Valentin did his full opera, Affaire Etrangere, with Lilypond: http://wiki.lilynet.net/-Opera- M. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all! I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-17 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 16/12/2013 22:59, Kieren MacMillan disait : Hello all! I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. Have you looked at Nicolas Sceaux's works (http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/)? For my part, I re-typeset

calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all! I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. Specifically: 1. Is lilypond-book the only sane way to do it? 2. What functions/extensions/tricks did you use to bend Lily to your will? 3. What pitfalls

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-16 Thread karl
Kieren: I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. If you count H.Purcells Dido et Æneas for a full opera, take a look at: http://turkos.aspodata.se/noter/dido_et_aeneas/ Specifically: 1. Is

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-16 Thread Derek
I haven't done one but I am keen to learn. If those who know don't mind me asking what their strategies/workflows are like for such huge works? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/calling-all-opera-musical-engravers-tp156024p156026.html Sent from

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-16 Thread Luca Rossetto Casel
Dear Kieren and all, Il 16/12/2013 22:59, Kieren MacMillan ha scritto: I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. I engraved the critical edition of Traetta's /Enea nel Lazio/ in full score. It's a 18th

Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

2013-12-16 Thread Mike Solomon
On Dec 16, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all! I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. Specifically: 1. Is lilypond-book the only sane way to do