On Dec 16, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hello all! > > I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical > (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. > > Specifically: > 1. Is lilypond-book the only sane way to do it? I don’t use LilyPond book for my stage works - just the prefaces. > 2. What functions/extensions/tricks did you use to bend Lily to your will? Lots - nothing unanswerable by this list if you have questions. > 3. What pitfalls are to be watched for (and hopefully avoided)? Make sure to separate out content and layout info as much as possible. > 4. What limitations cannot [currently] be overcome? I have a piece where several characters are singing in different time-signatures freely and they switch at certain cues. It requires floating bits of music to appear all over the page, and LilyPond is not really designed for that. I wound up typesetting the individual bits and importing them into inkscape for the layout. This type of layout is not crazy enough to warrant doing outside of LilyPond - there should be a way to line up floating staves based on anchors. There are lots of ways to go about this, but the one I’m most excited about would be making markups more object oriented and then creating spacing engines that line up markups based on anchors. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
