Re: [Mutopia-discuss] lunr.js -- client-side search in the browser

2017-02-16 Thread Glen Larsen
Interesting. Searching is pretty snappy, case insensitive, but doesn't ignore diacritical marks. The load time is comfortable for 627 entries and it would be interesting to see how load times would be for larger sets. This is a client-side index so index build performance is also dependent on the c

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Mutopia search function?

2016-03-19 Thread Glen Larsen
Ouch. The keyword search box is somewhat fuzzy, matching on strings that may be contained within other terms, but I would think that if one were to use the search page and select the instrument 'Viol', the search would target only pieces written for just that instrument. That doesn't happen and it

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Prototype MutopiaProject site is up for review

2016-02-11 Thread Glen Larsen
Thank you all for the feedback. This web site effort has used github to track changes, seeded with a fork of the server section of the MutopiaProject github pages. The issues and history can be viewed here: https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaWeb Of special interest is issue #32

[Mutopia-discuss] Prototype MutopiaProject site is up for review

2016-02-09 Thread Glen Larsen
Late last year an effort was started to update the MutopiaProject.org website. The primary goal was to upgrade the existing site to HTML5, allowing better performance on small-format devices. We used a free and respected web infrastructure toolkit (bootstrap ) and document

[Mutopia-discuss] Thanks

2015-11-27 Thread Glen Larsen
I'd like to say "THANKS!" to all the people who contribute to the MutopiaProject updates. At the risk of missing someone, here are the contributors who spent time on these tasks: Abel Cheung Federico Bruni Felix Janda Francisco Vila Javier Ruiz-Alma Joram-Berger Knute Snortum Paul Morris Samuel Ru

[Mutopia-discuss] Project: Updating the look of the MutopiaProject web site

2015-11-19 Thread Glen Larsen
And now for something completely different. *The Project:* Make the MutopiaProject website more readable on small format devices like pads and smartphones. The overall design and intent of the site will remain the same --- presenting open source sheet music and inviting contributors. *Method:* Bu

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Is it one LilyPond file per song for Mutopia?

2015-09-26 Thread Glen Larsen
There are many submissions in the Mutopia Project that don't follow the typical 1-piece submission model. There are several opera submissions that contain all pieces in the opera as a single submission, for example. Take a look at Psyché by J. B. Lully

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Mutopia Project update #5

2015-08-27 Thread Glen Larsen
2.10 454 2.11 308 2.12 186 2.13 27 2.14 75 2.16 314 2.17 1 2.18 209 2.19 59 Lots of work to do to get to the 2.8 area but nothing like the 2.10 - 2.12 hurdle. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:20 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Glen Larsen wri

[Mutopia-discuss] Fwd: Mutopia Project update #5

2015-08-27 Thread Glen Larsen
and non-GITHUB participation is welcome. Thanks. -glen -- Forwarded message ------ From: Glen Larsen Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:44 PM Subject: Mutopia Project update #5 To: Mutopia discuss This update will clear 2 LilyPond revisions from the Mutopia Project catalog. At the start

[Mutopia-discuss] Mutopia Project update #5

2015-08-27 Thread Glen Larsen
This update will clear 2 LilyPond revisions from the Mutopia Project catalog. At the start of these update projects the total count of LilyPond versions in use was 127 and we are currently at 97. Now that all pieces are now in the 2.* range so, hopefully, the update tasks should be easier. Obviousl

[Mutopia-discuss] Opus transcriptions: one at a time or all at once?

2015-08-11 Thread Glen Larsen
I'm starting a new set of transcriptions, Aguado's Op. 3, and since this is only 8 small pieces, is there a preference for the work to be presented as one document of the entire opus, or 8 individual documents? (I prefer single pieces since I rarely print an entire opus at home.) Also, I am consid

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Peter Pan incidental music

2014-12-26 Thread Glen Larsen
Taking a look at the title page on google books I would say that the source field in the header should read: source = "Price & Reynolds, 41, Berners Street W, London" This, along with the publication date, provide a clear statement of what you used as a base for this transcription. You may wan

[Mutopia-discuss] Mutopia Project update #4

2014-12-16 Thread Glen Larsen
The milestone for update #4 is to take all Mutopia pieces originally typeset with LilyPond version 2.2 and update them to the latest stable or development version. The GITHUB Mutopia Project

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Blog post and upcoming fourth update effort

2014-12-13 Thread Glen Larsen
I would encourage volunteers to only take on only what they are sure they can handle. That said, I wouldn't discourage a volunteer from taking on more than one piece. Expect an announcement soon. I look forward to reading your blog entry! -glen On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Paul Morris wrot

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] reviewing pull requests in github

2014-12-04 Thread Glen Larsen
Adding a link to the guide is a good idea but it doesn't exactly match our wiki's entry regarding setting up for contribution . Here is some wiki text that I will add to a new page on reviewing (if one h

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] reviewing pull requests in github

2014-12-04 Thread Glen Larsen
Ah, so right. My apologies for not doing deeper research. I'll take a more complete look later today. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > Il giorno gio 4 dic 2014 alle 8:00, Glen Larsen ha > scritto: > > These instructions are modifying an inactive pull re

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] reviewing pull requests in github

2014-12-03 Thread Glen Larsen
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > Hi all > > I'm reading this guide: > https://help.github.com/articles/checking-out-pull-requests-locally/ > > I see that I can easily checkout the branch submitted through a pull > request with this command: > > git fetch origin pull/ID/head

[Mutopia-discuss] Latest update milestone

2014-09-02 Thread Glen Larsen
At this time there are only 5 pieces available for assignment in the phase 3 update task. It has been 2 days since the task was announced and the team has generated 14 pull requests. At the completion of this task the Mutopia Project archive will have no pieces built with LilyPond older than versi

[Mutopia-discuss] Phase 3 updates

2014-08-31 Thread Glen Larsen
This is a request for volunteers to participate in another series of updates for the Mutopia Project archive. The 27 pieces in this set are all built with LilyPond version 2.1.*. Each target piece is entered as a GITHUB issue. This GITHUB milestone tracker

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] git advice: remove a merge

2014-05-14 Thread Glen Larsen
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > Thanks Felix, I'll try that. > > If I can close a pull request, I don't see how to on GitHub. I may just > be missing it, though. If anyone knows how to do it, please tell me. > Closing is a product of merging the pull request. I believe

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] clean pull requests?

2014-05-14 Thread Glen Larsen
Of course this will work --- "master" is a branch like any other branch and you could specify "master" in your pull request. It is not recommended practice because: - You now have to wait until that pull request is processed to submit other work - If you now create a branch that change is

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Contribute document clarification

2014-05-14 Thread Glen Larsen
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > In > https://github.com/chrissawer/The-Mutopia-Project/wiki/Setting-up-for-Contributions-via-GITHUB > > Under Synchronize with your local repository, > > Couldn't > > $ git fetch upstream$ git merge upstream/master > > > be simplified to > >

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] clean pull requests?

2014-05-13 Thread Glen Larsen
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Knute Snortum wrote: > Frederico, I am confused by what you mean by a "merge commit." Since it > is something I should try to avoid, I should understand what it is. Is it > merging a branch into master and committing it? > Any merge from another branch will cau

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] clean pull requests?

2014-05-13 Thread Glen Larsen
In Mutopia there is typically no real need to merge other updates into a development branch because [1] it doesn't have dependencies to other parts of the Mutopia archive and [2] changes to a single piece within the archive are done by a single individual. I would prefer a minimal number of commit

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Helping

2014-05-09 Thread Glen Larsen
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Knute Snortum wrote: > I can see that Mutopia is starting get moving again. I want to help. > That may mean just typesetting as many pieces as I can. > > I am on disability so I have a lot of time on my hands. Can I help with > cleaning up the old source files?

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Call for contributions: popular scores not yet in Mutopia

2014-05-08 Thread Glen Larsen
Nice, Federico. All of these works are substantial and will be interesting additions to Mutopia. I might take on another one when I'm finished with the Chopin Nocturne (but pace it a little bit so I can squeeze in an update project ;-) On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Federico Bruni wrote: > Y

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Update to 2.16/2.18: next step?

2014-05-08 Thread Glen Larsen
I have enjoyed these update projects and plan more of them in the future. Right now I am absorbed in a transcription of Chopin's Nocturne, op 9, no 3 and I hope to get that done before moving house in about a month. When all that dust clears I hope to get another update chunk started. Until then,

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Presenting multi-movement music as one piece

2014-04-27 Thread Glen Larsen
It was interesting to review how differently Bach's French Suitesand English Suitesare presented in Mutopia collections. The French Suit

[Mutopia-discuss] Phase II updates are complete

2014-02-28 Thread Glen Larsen
Thanks to all the participants in the 2nd update pass: Federico Bruni Francisco Vila Javier Ruiz-Alma Karsten Richter We got all the pull requests submitted in 11 days. I've got a bit of life coming up so it will probably be a few weeks before the next round. -glen _

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Call for volunteers: phase II updates

2014-02-19 Thread Glen Larsen
converted from 2.0 to 2.14! Thanks, -glen On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Glen Larsen wrote: > I have begun another set of updates --- 15 files --- for the Mutopia > Project and volunteers are welcome. When complete, we will have cleared the > archive of all pieces built with LilyPond

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Call for volunteers: phase II updates

2014-02-18 Thread Glen Larsen
d updates. I welcome you to accept the challenge and engage users on mutopia-discuss if you get stuck. -glen On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Glen, > > > On 2014-02-18 18:16, Glen Larsen wrote: > > I have begun another set of updates --- 15 files --- for

[Mutopia-discuss] Call for volunteers: phase II updates

2014-02-17 Thread Glen Larsen
I have begun another set of updates --- 15 files --- for the Mutopia Project and volunteers are welcome. When complete, we will have cleared the archive of all pieces built with LilyPond versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2, and 2.0.3. The target pieces and assignments are listed and will be tracked in this GITH

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Status of latest update task

2014-02-17 Thread Glen Larsen
quickly (5) Action 2.18 update pull requests I intend to > have these finished by the end of February. Sorry that it means waiting a > bit longer for the 2.18 updates but once the updating is more automated I > should be able to process them more quickly in the future. Regards, Chris >

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Contributing back Guitar music / practise material - #2

2014-02-10 Thread Glen Larsen
ce this set of studies was published in 1936 and not sufficiently old enough to qualify for submission to the Mutopia Project. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Glen, > > > On 2014-02-11 05:05, Glen Larsen wrote: > >> On this particular collectio

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Contributing back Guitar music / practise material

2014-02-10 Thread Glen Larsen
I personally do not know of an optical reader for music notation. You are talking about a very simple case --- most guitar studies are in the key of C and two or fewer voices. That sounds like I am saying "tough it out" which, I guess I am, but I do appreciate new approaches to music notation. Tra

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] "For Elise" add sustain markings?

2014-01-31 Thread Glen Larsen
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Jason Cooper wrote: > Glen, > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:42:03PM -0800, Glen Larsen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Jason Cooper >wrote: > > > I've been casually learning piano for the past six months or so. I'm

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] "For Elise" add sustain markings?

2014-01-31 Thread Glen Larsen
If you are talking about putting a sustainOff in the very first measure you could "fake it" by using markup with the glyph directly: \markup{\musicglyph #"pedal.*"} That's how I read your post but I'm not sure that it would make sense at the start of the piece. I am assuming this is for your own

[Mutopia-discuss] Status of latest update task

2014-01-25 Thread Glen Larsen
It has been a little over 2 weeks since this task was started and I am happy to say that 14 of the 15 tasks have pull requests submitted. A big "Thank You!" to the volunteers who helped get Mutopia clear of LilyPond 1.x: Karsten Richter Valentin Villenave Javier Ruiz-Alma Francisco Vila Federico B

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] What makes old LilyPond code challenging

2014-01-20 Thread Glen Larsen
Valentin, Thanks for this. It is always interesting to see how others get along with this task. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > [ snip ] > - Similarly, one has to remind that basic markups were used for > practically everything, so you might want to double-check for >

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Request for assistance: Updating Mutopia pieces from the oldest LilyPond versions

2014-01-12 Thread Glen Larsen
pipeline. -glen On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Glen Larsen wrote: > I have started an update project in the Mutopia GIT repository and this is > a request for assistance. There are 15 files in the archive that are > written for LilyPond versions less than 2.0 and I have entered each

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Request for assistance: Updating Mutopia pieces from the oldest LilyPond versions

2014-01-10 Thread Glen Larsen
have been assigned via this list I have simply assigned them to me and inserted a comment. I will be updating GITHUB this afternoon with the emailed submissions. Happy Updating. -glen On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Glen Larsen wrote: > I have started an update project in the Mutopia G

[Mutopia-discuss] Request for assistance: Updating Mutopia pieces from the oldest LilyPond versions

2014-01-09 Thread Glen Larsen
I have started an update project in the Mutopia GIT repository and this is a request for assistance. There are 15 files in the archive that are written for LilyPond versions less than 2.0 and I have entered each one of them as an open issue in GIT. A milestone

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Help in typesetting/decyphring a song into a musical notation

2013-04-19 Thread Glen Larsen
Mutopia's goal is to provide high quality typeset editions of legally available sheet music. Modern jazz and popular music are unavailable due to copyright restrictions. Unless the music has been officially released to the public domain, Mutopia would be unable to help. 'Creating one' translates t

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] On the header parsing

2013-01-08 Thread Glen Larsen
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Felix Janda wrote: > On 01/07/13 at 05:24pm, Glen Larsen wrote: > > Very cool, David. > > Felix, I knew you'd want something like this made out of that: > > Simple python wrapper for this scheme code < > https://gist.github.com/448

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] On the header parsing

2013-01-07 Thread Glen Larsen
Very cool, David. Felix, I knew you'd want something like this made out of that: Simple python wrapper for this scheme code On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:59 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Felix Janda > writes: > > > Hi, > > > > just some thoughts on the current header

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] On the header parsing

2012-12-16 Thread Glen Larsen
ier. The person accepting the pull is going to want to visually review the change. That's time-consuming. If after review you can simply run a move-to-server script without making further edits, that would be an advantage. -glen On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Felix Janda wrote: > On 12

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] On the header parsing

2012-12-16 Thread Glen Larsen
Felix, some comments below. -gl On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Felix Janda wrote: > Hi, > > just some thoughts on the current header parsing of Mutopia's software > motivated by (not wanting to install java and) the thought that lilypond's > language is so complex that parsing it should be lef

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] J. S. Bach, errors in BWV 988: Goldberg Aria

2012-12-13 Thread Glen Larsen
I've entered this as an issue on the repository so it is in the queue and can be assigned/tracked. -glen On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM, wrote: > Howdy! > > >Not sure what else to do...so I am posting this here. > >There are 2 significant errors in the Goldberg Aria, which > I

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] update of Sicilienne (Op 78) by Gabriel Fauré

2012-12-11 Thread Glen Larsen
One of these days I will understand this. It seems the attributes in the log files are correct so I'm not going to worry about it. I have a guess but need to spend my energy elsewhere right now. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Federico Bruni wrote: > 2012/12/9 Chris Sawer > >> Thanks, I have

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] update of Sicilienne (Op 78) by Gabriel Fauré

2012-12-09 Thread Glen Larsen
Ah, thanks for the hint, Felix. if you have a pull request from your fork's master any subsequent commit before that pull request is handled is considered part of that pull request. I was creating branches on my local repository, then merging them locally. I need to adjust my workflow. On Sun, De

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] update of Sicilienne (Op 78) by Gabriel Fauré

2012-12-09 Thread Glen Larsen
My last push did the same thing --- merged my push into my most recent pull request. I'm familiar enough with git but need to figure out how to control the github behavior. -glen On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Chris Sawer wrote: > On 04/12/12 08:07, Federico Bruni wrote: > >> I've just commit

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] review of GalileiV/saltarello

2012-12-09 Thread Glen Larsen
Some of these old lilypond files where the fingering is done by markup are a real challenge to read. I have had luck with \set restrainOpenStrings = ##t and a liberal amount of \once\set minimumFret=4. To attain a goal of an uncluttered Staff you may need to occasionally hide the string numbering (

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] Size of Mutopia tagline

2012-12-05 Thread Glen Larsen
First the obvious: this is a Mutopia bug and needs to be fixed. The staff size affects the font size and the Mutopia is simply too large to fit. It should never be that prominent. Because this is a small piece it is understandable that the original typesetter made the score a little larger. My pr

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] update of Sicilienne (Op 78) by Gabriel Fauré

2012-12-03 Thread Glen Larsen
Agreed. The build scripts wrote the tagline originally and assume they are untouched; unfortunately they will add a "tagline" below yours and this will precipitate another edit before publishing. I am working on a more detailed document to make submission editing more clear. Federico, Since you h

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] guide lines for lilypond code

2012-11-27 Thread Glen Larsen
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Glen Larsen wrote: > > > Adding Makefiles to mutopia submissions would increase headaches rather > than reduce them: you don't want volunteers interested in music fussing > with a makefile that works on one OS and not another. > This sho

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] guide lines for lilypond code

2012-11-27 Thread Glen Larsen
I prefer the occasional \barNumberCheck in a complex score; they add to productivity and accuracy. Adding Makefiles to mutopia submissions would increase headaches rather than reduce them: you don't want volunteers interested in music fussing with a makefile that works on one OS and not another.

[Mutopia-discuss] Mutopia contributions

2012-11-21 Thread Glen Larsen
Mutopia has an interesting niche in classical sheet music availability and I would like to contribute more work. My sheet music contributions have slowed mostly because I have seen very little traffic on the site. I understand that this can happen as a site evolves and voluntary maintainers and con

[Mutopia-discuss] Unclear sources

2011-09-18 Thread Glen Larsen
This is my first post to the discussion list and it is more of a question about the clarity of a scanned source I am working on. Please let me know if these questions are not appropriate to the mailing list. I am working from Boije 4, D. Aguado's Op4 Six Petites Pie