Thanks William, very interesting and I like your suggestion to cajole a
   student into doing the donkey work - would I could find someone so
   gullible!

   Martyn
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   From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu <lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu> on behalf
   of William Brohinsky <tiorbin...@gmail.com>
   Sent: 04 October 2016 17:08
   To: Lute NET
   Subject: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score

      I think, Martin, you might find it difficult to find software which
   can
      follow any score at random, choosing the proper parts out page after
      page, to combine into a different document. In fact, I think that
   most
      people in the world couldn't successfully do this, because the
   people
      who typeset scores aren't doing anything to make it easier for a
      machine to extract and recombine parts.
      You describe the problem well:
      "a 165 page full score with
         up to 30 independent parts/lines to cut and paste into a short
   score
      of
         just four principal lines would seem to take a long time to
   achieve
      â"
      Between different movements and different textures, combined with
   the
      publisher's desire to reduce useless all-rest lines and format the
      result meaningfully to a conductor or student/studier and the
      possibilities of ossiae, editorial marks, etc, within a single
   score,
      and the software creator's desire to have a program which isn't
   limited
      to converting only one publisher's output (or, for that matter, one
      single score!) it is very difficult to create a
      one-program-does-all-the-thinking approach.
      By offloading the selection of which lines to be kept and decoding
      which parts are in each system, and the other things you describe, a
      program which has a chance of succeeding with many publisher's
   output
      and many different score layouts, editorial additions and insertions
      and alternates, fonts and system markings is possible.
      It might be that an AI-controlled program trained to understand
   these
      things as we do will become available in another decade or three,
   but
      it is hard to say that it would be more effective than a monkey with
   a
      razer blade and a pot of glue. And it probably won't get the job
   done
      in time for your project.
      What you need is to infuse a graduate student or a young teen with
   the
      desire to prove how great [1]partifi.org is, and to snooker them
   into
      proving it with your score.
      â
      On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Martyn Hodgson
      <[2]hodgsonmar...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
           Dear David and Bruno,
           Many thanks for this.
           I've looked at Partifi now: it seems mostly to have been
   designed
        to
           produce individual parts from a full score although there does
        seem to
           be the facility to combine some. But the need to have to label
        every
           line and specify a part on every single page might make the
   whole
        thing
           a bit labourious for what I wish to do. eg a 165 page full
   score
        with
           up to 30 independent parts/lines to cut and paste into a short
        score of
           just four principal lines would seem to take a long time to
        achieve -
           unless I've missed some easier facility within Partifi.
           But many thanks
           Martyn
             ____________________________________________________________
        ______
           From: David van Ooijen <[3]davidvanooi...@gmail.com>
           To: MJ Hodgson <[4]mjhodg...@hotmail.co.uk>
           Cc: Lute NET <[5]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
           Sent: Monday, 3 October 2016, 15:18
           Subject: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score
             My mistake. Here's the correct link
             [1][1][6]http://partifi.org/
             David
             On Monday, 3 October 2016, David van Ooijen
             <[2][2][7]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote:
                   Partify com or org, don't know).
                   On Monday, 3 October 2016, MJ Hodgson
               <[1][3][3][8]mjhodg...@hotmail.co.uk>
                 wrote:
                     I'd be grateful for advice on the best (free)
   software
      for
                   creating a
                     new short score from an existing pdf full score.
      What I
             mean is
                   being
                     able to copy two or three principal lines and the
   bass
      onto
             a new
                     pdf     page of, say, a 30 part mass which already
      exists as
             a pdf
                   .
                     I presume there's some where one can scroll over a
   line,
             copy it
                   and
                     paste onto a new pdf and so, by digitally cutting and
             pasting,
                   create a
                     new short score more useful to a theorbo player who
      finds
             dealing
                   with
                     page turns every few bars not really practicable
   (unlike
             keyboard
                   where
                     the right hand can turn).
                     MH
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               References
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                   2. [8][7][13]http://www.cs.dartmouth.
        edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
                   3. mailto:[9][8][14]davidvanooi...@gmail.com
                   4. [10][9][15]http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/
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             [11][10][16]davidvanooi...@gmail.com
             [12][17]www.davidvanooijen.nl
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   [2][musicstand.gif]
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   partifi.org
   Partifi is made for musicians by musicians. By freely offering this
   part-making tool and maintaining a publicly accessible library of
   user-contributed scores, we seek ...
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