On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:56:45PM +0100, Janek Warcho?? wrote: > > Yes, it's a nice example and i wouldn't hesitate to post it in that > discussion. I don't see it there; would you like me to post it?
Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, you may post it if you like. Word the post yourself of course, but just for context, I'd suggest you enter it as a 'Reply' to Felix Plinio Designori's Feb 21 post citing feature deficiencies in Sibelius. It was created explicitly to show how Lilypond can address his needs, specifically: "a) the abilty to easily have eg. 2 staves for 4 horns in the score (http://felixrosch.com/example.png) and still be able to get 4 entirely different printed parts for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th horn alone. ?or to have 3 flutes in one stave in the score (http://felixrosch.com/example.png) and still be able to print 3 different parts, one for each voice. That would save a lot of time i think? and/or space in the score." I think I understood his intent when I read "different" to mean "separate." And: "c) I would love to be able to easily and intuitively have the instrument names placed in the middle between two or more staves. eg. with the horn example above I would like to just write ?4 Horns in F? and have it placed automatically between both staves instead of writing it for both staves seperately. I know, that is possible in Sibelius already, but its still not as easy to do as I think it should be." His item b sounded like a Sibelius bug fix request, so I didn't try to suss out what he meant. My example defines the 4 horn parts separately, and the example tells Lilypond to engrave them first as separate parts (and all on the same page, since they're small). Then, with no double-entry or copying or pasting of the horn parts, Lilypond can combine them onto two staves, with labeling applied to the staff group, NOT the individual staves (as Mr. Designori requires). Next, it shows Lilypond's automatic transposition of the four horn parts to bass clef and concert pitch for four trombones, with all four parts grouped onto a single staff, as Mr. Designori requires in his flute example. The arranger chose to swap the two inner voices, so the 2nd Trombone is playing the 3rd Horn part, and vice versa. An optional tenor clef part is provided for the 1st Trombone. Both the combined scores and all five of the trombone parts are derived directly from the horn parts, again with no redundant copying and pasting nor tedious manual transposition needed. This means that when the arranger makes changes to the individual horn parts, Lilypond will automatically apply those changes to the combined horns score, the individual trombone parts, and the combined trombones score. If there were other parts containing cue notes based on the horn or trombone parts, Lilypond would also correctly engrave the changed cues. The example also shows that while Mr. Designori may find it tricky to do in Sibelius, with Lilypond, labeling a staff group is just as easy and flexible as labeling a single staff. The accidentals are as copied from the original poster's example. Jim _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user