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

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,

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

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

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

Re: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-14 Thread David Bellows
> He stated that he didn't want to block people to play the work, be it for free or for profit. > The only concern is, what if someone tries to become rich and/or prevents others to do the same? Here's the page in the Creative Commons website (the license you used at the bottom of the first

Re: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-14 Thread Knute Snortum
The "CC" license mentioned in the quoted material is Creative Commons ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/) and it was designed for exactly these kinds of situations. --- Knute Snortum (via Gmail) On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Francisco Vila wrote: > On

Re: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-14 Thread Francisco Vila
On 14/08/17 16:00, David Bellows wrote: > [copied to entire list, sigh] > > Hey Francisco, > > It looks really nice, congratulations! > > I was wondering if you could talk a bit about how you and the composer > chose the license for this work. I license my stuff under a permissive > CC license but

Re: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-14 Thread David Bellows
[copied to entire list, sigh] Hey Francisco, It looks really nice, congratulations! I was wondering if you could talk a bit about how you and the composer chose the license for this work. I license my stuff under a permissive CC license but still find it interesting when other composers do as

Re: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-14 Thread Francisco Vila
On 12/08/17 13:09, Francisco Vila wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd like to share what I'm been working on lately. Daahoud Salim, a > young Spanish composer and pianist has been commited by the Grachten > Festival Amsterdam to compose a short work for one main violin plus > piano quintet (string

Fwd: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-12 Thread Ralph Palmer
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 9:13 AM Subject: Re: A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond To: Francisco Vila <paconet@gmail.com> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Francisco V

A premiere by Daahoud Salim, typeset with LilyPond

2017-08-12 Thread Francisco Vila
Hello all, I'd like to share what I'm been working on lately. Daahoud Salim, a young Spanish composer and pianist has been commited by the Grachten Festival Amsterdam to compose a short work for one main violin plus piano quintet (string quartet plus piano), named "Poem - History of Peoples",