RE: Is there a translator from LilyPond to XML?
Subject: Re: Is there a translator from LilyPond to XML? From: imj-muz...@bluewin.ch Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:19:20 +0200 To: dennis.cla...@gmail.com CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org; alexisloo...@gmail.com Just tried export to MusicXML directly from Photo Score Ultimate: it seems to do a much better job as Sibelius 7.1.3 in case of repeats. With the latter, you’re bound to edit them thoroughly… JM Myriad's PDF to music pro does a good job too in recognizing Lypond PDF and converting to MusicXML. Mind it that this program only works with PDFs that are not scans, but actually generated by a music typesetting program. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: ANN: python-ly 0.3
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:05:13 +0100 From: wbs...@xs4all.nl To: frescoba...@googlegroups.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: ANN: python-ly 0.3 Hi all, python-ly 0.3 has been released. The python-ly is in development and provides the 'ly' module for python programs and the 'ly' commandline tool that can parse and manipulate LilyPond source files. Url: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ly/ Main changes in 0.3: - new command 'highlight' to create syntax-highlighted HTML files of LilyPond source files - new, very experimental, command 'musicxml' to export music to MusicXML Hi, Wilbert. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but would your project benefit from packages like Abjad and music21? They're also python based and perhaps some of the code could be reused? Eduardowww.expresssignproducts.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102
Subject: Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 133, Issue 102 From: kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:28:03 -0500 To: j...@rosseel.com CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org Hello all, So interesting that this came up on the list this week… I was brainstorming an orchestration teaching tool, where one could find the distribution of notes in an instrument across an entire score, to show students where [good] composers tend to have their instruments play. How hard would that be to implement as a function? I imagine these features could be done with a music analysis framework like music21 (http://web.mit.edu/music21/)? It's scripted in python. Works with MusicXML, though. Another one that I would like to check out is the commercial (but inexpensive) one: http://www.melodicmatch.com. (Works with MusicXML, as well). ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: Lyrics to hymn - new user
Hi, Carl. I like your sample. What do you do to make the verses left aligned (and possibly shifted) at the start of a new system? Do you do it manually? I know one could do it fairly easy if at the start of every new verse in the lyrics one could put the directive to align the syllable to the left. I'm looking forward to learning more about your workflow with typesetting hymns, if you ever share it, especially your customized part-combine. Cheers, Eduardo ___ 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
RE: Lyrics to hymn - new user
From: janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:36:20 +0200 Subject: Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user To: carlopeter...@gmail.com CC: eduardo.su...@hotmail.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org 2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who, precisely) wrote a macro that allows one to left-align all the lyric syllables at an arbitrary musical point. It looks at all the syllables at that point, figures out the longest one (as typeset), centers it, and left aligns all the other syllables relative to the longest one. It was written by David Nalesnik, and can be found here: https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/blob/master/custom-engravers/aligning-first-lyric-syllables.ily When I find time, I'll work on creating a clean git repository to house the basic template/framework I've developed. You're welcome to place your stuff in the openlilylib/snippets repository (https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets) - i think it'd be good to keep all lilypond stuff together. Janek Thank you, Carl and Janek. Awesome stuff. I liked your simple introduction to Lilypond, Janek, even though I don't speak any polish ;-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: Transcribing from Audio
Subject: Transcribing from Audio From: richard.sh...@virgin.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:27:51 +0100 Denemo can now help in transcribing an audio performance into notation typeset by LilyPond. The audio is loaded into an empty score and Denemo detects note-onsets in the piece and provides a set of beats at whatever tempo you have guessed at (you can suggest the time signature too). Richard, I appreciate your work on Denemo. It's definitely on my plans to explore more about this Lilypond companion. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: Anyone using a tablet for lily?
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:47:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Anyone using a tablet for lily? From: carlopeter...@gmail.com To: da...@druid.net CC: i...@soundand.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org What I would be interested in is a WYSIWYG editor that would be able to take down notes and output a basic ly file, perhaps to Dropbox. Hi, I think there are some editors for Android/Ipad that will at least output to ABC or MusicXML, you could try exporting it from there, no? Cheers, Eduardowww.heartfeltsongs.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:34:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines From: carlopeter...@gmail.com To: janek.lilyp...@gmail.com CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an advertisement for a hymnal that uses left-justified first syllables. It does not right-justify the last syllables. http://www.sumphoniahymnal.com/copy-content/hymnal-info-toc.pdf This hymnal does something else I wouldn't mind being able to do. You'll notice on page 2 (with the picture of the print sample) that the lines on the left side are shorter than those on the right side. They do this so that they can break the systems at the end of lyrical phrases, rather than margin breaks, without stretching out the lyrics to the point of unreadability. However, this is not the same as ragged-right, as I understand it. The lines are not engraved at their natural lengths, but are set at the best width from a set of possible widths (so that, for example, line with 10 syllables may take the full line length, but two lines with 6 syllables may both take 70% of the line length if one line sets naturally at 68% and the other at 75%. Furthermore, the systems in a hymn are left justified within the hymn, but the hymn itself is centered on the page. Also, is there a command/property for score footers, as in the example? Right now, I'm replicating this with markup commands, but would like to be able to stylesheet this like the score headers. So, for whoever may be keeping score or trying to figure out how many directions this thread is going in, I've asked about this: 1. Left-aligning the first syllable of every system. Hi, Carl, this feature is in my wishlist too. I have several songbooks and hymnals that follow at least this convention of left aligned first syllables. Doing that manually is a pain, especially if you don't know which syllable will be the first in the next system.I'm also having an impression that using lilypond to produce hymnals with words and notes too tight/crammed can be a real challenge. Regards, Eduardo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: My return to Lilypond
From: Janek Warchoł Sent: April 4, 2013 11:55 AM To: Eduardo Silva Subject: Re: My return to Lilypond Hi, i was absent when you wrote this email, and i've read it just now. How did you fare? Unfortunately i cannot do much to promote your work, because in Poland we rarely sing non-polish carols and hymns. best, Janek === Thanks, Janek, for your attention and interest. Overall, with the ones I could communicate, I got a very encouraging feedback on the idea of making music scores adapted to tablets. As far as sales went, I got the most from Amazon, but less than 20 units. I had very little time to market it properly, though. I was hoping in January I would start working on some more songbook ideas, but other more pressing duties came along, and I have done very little on that. Yet I still see the potential of this project being much successful than it has been so far, even though I will just explore Christian music, and probably secular children’s/educational songs. I also need to improve my workflow in generating epub/mobi files. Amazon won’t accept PDF submissions, as far as I know, and a direct conversion of PDF to mobi doesn’t work for scores at all. What I did was convert each page to an image and insert them in the mobi file. It worked fine. Compiling all the pdfs and assembling into a booklet was somewhat tedious/time consuming. I still need to learn to use lilypond-book to see if it would help my workflow, but the part of learning Latex just makes me think: “oh, no, one more challenge to my learning path...” Regards, Eduardo Heartfelt Songs | http://www.heartfeltsongs.com___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: LilyPond featured in Demo videos.
Subject: LilyPond featured in Demo videos. From: richard.sh...@virgin.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:00:56 + Dear LilyPond, LilyPond features in a demo video that I have posted at https://vimeo.com/62188678 to publicise the new version 1.0.0 of Denemo, just released. It points out the quality of LilyPond's typesetting without manual tweaking. It also shows LilyPond adjusting the layout of the music after transposition without any further user intervention (though this example was not chosen to illustrate this point, and another example with dynamics, tempo changes etc would do that better). Thank you, Richard. These examples are making me consider Denemo for note entry.I had never taken the time to see what it could really offer. I'm glad it's not a dead project as it appeared to be in the past. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: How to run Lilypond from the Mac OS terminal
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:26:10 -0700 From: phili...@philmassart.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to run Lilypond from the Mac OS terminal Hello, At first sight I would change one line of your .profile like this to include the lilypond binary in your path: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH to export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin:$PATH Thanks, Phillip! That solved the problem Eduardo www.heartfeltsongs.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
How to run Lilypond from the Mac OS terminal
Hello, I'm new to the Mac OS X and I can't figure out how to run Lilypond from the terminal. What I have done so far: - Lilypond is working as a stand alone - jEdit runs and compiles Lilypond - As far as I understand I created the files as instructed in this part of the documentation (http://www.lilypond.org/macos-x.html) Now I get this error if I run lilypond -h, for example: /Users/edsilva/bin/lilypond: line 2: /Users/edsilva/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: No such file or directory /Users/edsilva/bin/lilypond: line 2: exec: /Users/edsilva/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond: cannot execute: No such file or directory This is the content of my .profile file: edsilva$ cat .profile # MacPorts Installer addition on 2013-01-17_at_06:25:38: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts. export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH # Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts. export PATH=$PATH:~/bin What am I missing? Eduardo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: Visual Index to Documentation
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:03:58 +0100 From: noeck.marb...@gmx.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Visual Index to Documentation Hi, since the beginning of the year, I have worked on an alternative access to the LilyPond documentation, which I call a visual index. It is intended especially for tweaking purposes, if a user wants to change a property of an object. Here it is: http://joramberger.de/files/lilypond_visualindex.pdf With this index the user does not need to know the names of LilyPond objects. It links to the corresponding section of the documentation. Great idea. I was thinking of something on the same line, but your idea seems to be very straightforward.I had thought of maybe using a mind-map style of visualization, using something like FreeMind. Regards, Eduardohttp://www.hearfeltsongs.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
RE: My return to Lilypond
David, not Daniel. The one with the constant harping, not the one able to coexist peacefully with multiple versions of Lion. Sorry about that, David :-( I was sure I had double checked it, but no... One thing I wish I could figure out how to find an easier way to do it is the lyrics alignment to the notes. I like this style of aligning the syllables to the left in the beginning of each system, like some songbooks have it. Because I can't tell it which syllable will be under the beginning of a new system, that's the last tweak I have to do. Example: http://pastebin.com/uwcVttgE I add these shortcuts to the affected syllables: lefta = \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #-1 leftb = \once \override LyricText #'X-offset = #-1 My wish would be to have a Scheme macro that would apply both this instructions for the first lyric syllable of a new system. Or is that beyond Scheme's scope? Cheers, Eduardo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
My return to Lilypond
Greetings! After an inactivity of maybe 4+ years, I'm coming back to the Lilypond users' community and to working with Lilypond. I must say I'm glad to see the progress of this project. The documentation has been improved a lot. I like the idea of a Learning Manual and a Notation Manual. I had to read and read, because I had forgotten so much stuff on how to use Lilypond—not that I had ever become proficient in this program in the first place. I've had this dream of selling songbooks and sheet music online for years. Finally now I narrowed down the scope of this effort and am focusing initially in producing songs especially adapted to small tablets, and e-Ink readers. So far, I've completed 2 songbooks, just in time for the Christmas season: Heartfelt Carols: Christmas Songs for Tablets and e-Readers, with regular notes and 7-shape note style. Free samples are available at my website: www.heartfeltsongs.com I'd appreciate your feedback on these publications (download the samples, please). I should say that the final results look so awesome despite the little time and lack of knowledge to do more customizations. It was a joy overall to work with Lilypond. I'm planning on donating to Lilypond at least 10% of my profit on these, if I manage to sell more than $1,000. I don't know how I would make an accountable process for this, but for now just take my word for it ;-). I'm pleased to see Daniel Kastrup's commitment to Lilypond. Regards, Eduardo Vieira www.heartfeltsongs.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
