Hi all,
Since a few weeks, I've gone into serious typesetting
with an average of a page an hour (two staffs, four voi-
ces), because I'm "restauring" the works of a lost harp-
sichordist for a friend, and with every piece, I've dis-
covered more and more the incredible strength (I can't
seriously can't imagine doing this with my Finale, or Si-
belius), but also a few flaws/things I don't know how to
do:
- I'd like to put the title and subtitle of the piece
where the instrument name usually is (right of the
staff) like this :
name of =@===========
piece =F===========
=@====================
=F====================
=@==================||
=F==================||
Using the Staff.Instrument (whatever), arises two
incovenients : it's pretty hard to blindly select
sizes using LaTex \\huge \\large \\LARGE to set the
font sizes, and it have to add TOOOONNS of spaces
to have the String place correctly. I'm certain the
latter is a bug. For one reason or another, the
text is on the Staff, this isn't corrected by chan-
ging indent properties or anything, it really just
sticks to the staff (this is true for every attempt
I've done until now).
Making this an option with ly2dvi would have seve-
ral advantages, notably, the one of saving a line
of music : the name of the piece just takes up the
place of small default indent. Of course this is
only useful for harpsichord pieces, or trio sonatas
because in orchestral score, you'd rather want the
instrument names.
- There doesn't seem to be a double repeat bar :||: I
tried putting consecutives \bar ":|" and then \bar
"|:", but this doesn't work, and I've looked in the
bar section as well. Have I just overlooked some-
thing, or was this forgotten.
- I perfectly know that sluring grace notes with the
next one is not available in current stable relea-
ses, but I'm wondering if somebody hasn't figured a
clever trick to manage this, as my score looks ugly
with all these "orphan" grace notes all over them.
I'll almost have to trade readibility/beauty over
authenticity, by using the cheute ornament(the com-
ma).
- I'm not sure if I already signaled this, but grace
from a new line appear in the custodes from the
previous one, something that shouldn't happen. The
worst, is that the custodes shows the grace(s)
note(s) and it's following note, thus making an
truely unreadable mess at times. Grace notes should
be *invisible* to custodes.
Of course, I just mentionned everything that went wrong,
but that's because I'm not quite sure what purpose it
would serve to talk about everything that's going right,
and also unsure about if people would read through my me-
ssage if I were to list them all :-)
Again, Lilypond developpers, you've done a swell job on
your program.
--
Kind Regards,
Jérémie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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