Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 11:21:24 +0100
From: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>
To: "Don Gingrich" <gingr...@internode.on.net>,
<lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Silly question, maybe...
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Phil said:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Don Gingrich" <gingr...@internode.on.net>
> > To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 10:59 AM
> > Subject: Silly question, maybe...
> > Is there a searchable archive of past questions and
> > answers from this list? A cursory look found nothing
> > anywhere obvious.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/
Thanks, Phil,
The footer did not really point me to the archive --
I'm possibly not as used to mailman lists as I should be.
But my question was not easily answered in either the
documentation or a slightly more than cursory look at the
archive.
What I was trying to work out involved taking a
generated file from MuseScore and getting it to properly
generate a LilyPond score output.
Why would I do that?
I figured that, if I had some code to start with, it might
be easier to get good output quickly. This has proved to
be true.
What I wanted to achieve was something on the order of
the lead-sheet with chord names illustrated in Lilypond-Snippets
on page number 259 of the pdf version (Single staff template
with notes and chords)
I eventually worked out that the format of the chord
information is: [1]
kD[:m] -- where:
k == key of the chord
D == duration -- 1 = 4 beats
2 = 2 beats
4 = 1 beat, etc. with a trailing . equal to 1/2
the preceding and some funky variations
such as 1*5/4 which would = 5 beats being
possible -- the key point is that this
value defines the duration for which
the chord is valid
:m == modifier as in 7 for a 7th chord or m for a minor chord -- this
is optional and the following line will force the more common
maj7 modifier instead of the delta if that's your preference:
\set Score.majorSevenSymbol = \markup {maj7}
I hope this is useful to someone. I know that printing folk-dance
music lead sheets or song lead sheets is a far cry from the orchestral
scores that some are producing, but I can see that without *too* much
of a learning curve I may be able to be productive. (I gave LilyPond
a go because MuseScore kept crashing when I tried to modify the beats
in a measure internally (not the first measure -- necessary when putting
multiple tunes (each with an anacrusis and a shortened final measure)
together in a "set" for a dance.
[1] I'm posting this for two reasons.
1 - I may get some feedback about whether I've got it right or
at least close.
2 - it was decidedly non-intuitive for me at first, and I'm
hoping that this may help some future newby.
> --
> Phil Holmes
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-Don
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