This sounds great. I'm starting on re working a book of music. I wrote it in
opus tex but want to make the new edition in gregorio and lily pond. Gregorio
uses lua latex so your music examples sounds like a good fit.
Veronica
On March 7, 2014 11:21:36 PM GMT+11:00, Urs Liska <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I registered (way too late) to this list because I'll do an
>announcement
>in a few days. But actually I realized that I should have registered
>long time ago, and I'll take the opportunity to introduce myself.
>
>I'm a professional pianist and musicologist, and an enthusiastic music
>engraver using LilyPond for quite some time.
>Nearly two years ago, during the preparation of a large music edition,
>I
>decided to finally dive into LaTeX and version control (actually I
>can't
>recall which was the consequence of the other), and I've never
>regretted
>this step!
>
>In the meantime I'm using LaTeX nearly exclusively (if not for enforced
>
>'compatibility' with family or others) and promote its use wherever I
>can. For example on our LilyPond blog:
>http://lilypondblog.org/tag/latex/.
>
>Two projects may be of interest on this list:
>
>1) lilyglyphs
>If you haven't noticed it: I have uploaded this package to CTAN, and it
>
>is (at least, to my knowledge) part of TeXLive 2013 in the meantime
>(also available in texlive-music in Debian sid). This package makes it
>possible to include _any_ notational construct that LilyPond can
>produce
>like characters in continuous text of LaTeX documents. I'd be very
>happy
>about any users and/or contributors for several aspects:
>- increasing the coverage with predefined commands
>- making it accessible from plain latex (currently it relies on xelatex
>
>or lualatex)
>- supporting the new SMuFL standard
>- some internal improvements and enhancements
>
>Project/Development homepage is
>https://github.com/openlilylib/lilyglyphs
>a more detailed announcement with example document can be found on
>http://lilypondblog.org/2013/09/using-musical-symbols-in-text-documents/
>
>Minimal example to try out if you have it already installed:
>
>\documentclass{article}
>\usepackage{fontspec}
>\usepackage{lilyglyphs}
>\begin{document}
>The \crescHairpin{} stops at the \lilyDynamics{pp} on the second
>\quaver.
>\end{document}
>
>
>2) musicexamples
>This is a package I haven't uploaded because it's not useful enough
>yet.
>But I hope it will become a very good way to use and manage music in
>LaTeX documents.
>Currently it supports including floating and non-floating music
>examples
>from pre-built image files (with a stress on LilyPond-created ones).
>The
>most interesting point so far is the support for full-page and
>multi-page score examples with caption support and support for scores
>explicitly starting on odd or even pages (i.e. "insert a multipage
>score, starting at the next odd page").
>
>I'd be happy about people sharing interest in that approach and help me
>
>get it further to become a really useful package.
>
>Steps to be done:
>
>- some internal improvements and fixes
> (e.g. handling of musicexamples that are entered before a previous
>one is actually printed)
>- improving/extending the tools that help to create/update suitable
>files with LilyPond.
>- managing LilyPond code directly in the LaTeX document
>
>The last one is the most important thing, but also the biggest
>challenge. What I would like to achieve is about the same functionality
>
>as lilypond-book does, but from inside the LaTeX compilation, without a
>
>script preprocessing the input file. I think this should be possible
>using Lua (although this functionality would be restricted to lualatex
>then). Some main advantages I see:
>- no need to first process the compilable .tex file
> -> I can immediately compile the document I'm writing
> -> No hassles with either a cluttered working dir or path issues when
>using a separate output directory
>- absolutely reliable access to the actual line or text width of the
>LaTeX document
>
>####
>
>Thanks for your patience and maybe even interest.
>
>Best regards
>Urs Liska
>
>
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