Paul, This sounds intriguing! First of all, my best wishes to you and your startup company. May you have great success!
Secondly, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are trying to avoid with the text above measure bars. Can you give us an example or two showing us exactly what you mean? I think that will help us know who can help you. Regards, Abraham Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Paul Tannous <ptann...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > LilyPonders: > > We are part of a startup company that wants to put LilyPond-generated > musical scores on tablets. We believe this will allow users to have > beautiful, readable scores on tablets and spread the usage of LilyPond to a > wider audience. We have completed the first version of an Android > application that does this. It dynamically repaginates the music score to > fill the tablet screen, and it supports written annotation. > > We have a series of programs that run on a Mac or PC to generate the scores > to be rendered on tablets of different screen sizes. A tablet-format score > of our own design is built from LilyPond-generated score images so a tablet > page of any size or orientation can be built dynamically, using note sizes > that will be readable. If you’ve seen PDF scores reduced and displayed on > tablets, you’ll understand why we think we have a better approach. > > Creating our tablet-format scores to support dynamic repagination means we > have to take steps to avoid having text directly above and below each of > the measure bars. We add measure bars back when rendering each line and > vary the bar widths in addition to adding space to fill out the lines. So > any text (tempo, dynamics, pedal instructions, etc.) spanning measures > would be split, pixels lost, and unwanted spacing added. We avoid this now > by writing the LilyPond source to avoid text above or below the measure > bars. However, this can be painstaking and time-consuming work. > > We would therefore like to see an option added to LilyPond, that could be > set before processing, that would avoid placing text above or below measure > bars. > > We believe there must be code already in the engravers to avoid splitting > text over measures at line ends. So, we are hoping our proposed enhancement > would be an extension of that code. > > We would be willing to pay a bounty to have this feature added if no one > else is interested in this functionality, but we have no idea of how much > effort would be required. We would like to have some feedback on how long > this would take and what someone who could do it would charge for the > effort. > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
