Re: Starting off a new community book project
Hi Henning, these would make nice chapters in the book. However, at the moment I've already had to interrupt thinking about the book as I'll only continue with that once my server transfer has fully been completed. Urs Am 17.07.2015 um 11:20 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hi Urs, I and some of my friends working with LilyPond mostly produce lead sheets for folk/scout/pop songs and some simple choir scores. For beginners it’s a challenge to get scores with chord names and lyrics, plus additional verses at the end. I’ll gladly provide my template that also shows how to use variables to allow different versions (PDF and MIDI) etc. I also have my own workflow of including LilyPond code within ConTeXt (the LaTeX alternative) to make songbooklets. see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond I can’t promise to help with anything else at the moment (CSS, Python, Bash would be candidates). Greetlings, Hraban Am 2015-06-25 um 01:41 schrieb Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Hello fellow LilyPonders, recently Federico raised my attention by pointing out the release of a new book on Mastering MuseScore. After some discussion, consideration and poking around I decided to lay the foundation for a new community book about a) LilyPond and b) the plain text complex with LilyPond, LaTeX and Git. Actually it's not a new idea but one that was already in the back of my mind when I started the openLilyLib tutorials and the respective type of posts on Scores of Beauty. There always was the wish to gather this sort of information to a more or less coherent entity like a book. So what I have by now is not presentable but it's in a state that I can (and have to) announce it in the form of a call for contribution. The idea of the book is to focus on those topics that the mailing list reveals to be regular stumbling blocks for new (or sometimes also seasoned) users. We want to assist them by gently going into great depth where the official documentation has to remain concise and reference-like. What I'm most interested in personally is that step from the needs of occasional or regular users to the more involved but also more exciting things, talking about aspects like getting into the spirit of using Scheme, or best practice suggestions to organize larger projects. For quite some time this book will have more empty than written pages, and it doesn't have to aim at becoming a coherent textbook. But I hope that we may achieve something that is comprehensive in the sense that it helps people diving more deeply in the LilyPond world. The book is authored in Markdown using GitBook (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook), a Node.js application that builds the book as a statically served HTML site. The official URL (where you can already have a first glimpse) is http://book.openlilylib.org, and the development repository is at https://git.ursliska.de/openlilylib/book. There is another location where unmerged branches will be automatically built to when pushed, for example http://bookbranches.openlilylib.org/scheme-tutorials. It will be possible to edit the pages online or locally, with the local way being somewhat more flexible but requiring the installation of a few tools and dependencies. Now I'm asking for contribution in several fields: 1) Improving the infrastructure and appearance. The most urgent issue is adding a CSS stylesheet for the table of contents. The regular TOC is always expanded, and it is clear that the TOC of that book will soon become inacceptably long. So we need a foldable/expandable navigation bar where initially most items are folded. Probably there's room for other improvments in the styling of the book, but that's not that urgent. There are other things on the functionality side where I'd be happy not to be alone with. These would involve some Node.js, Python and bash programming. 2) General discussion about potential contents, i.e. working on the outline of un-written chapters 3) Content contribution. One thing that might be attractive to start with is integrating existing posts from Scores of Beauty. This may be trivial in some cases, in other cases one has to do significant rearrangements. As development and deployment take place on my personal server I can't fully open up the access, which means that anyone who wants to contribute has to ask me explicitly for an account. Best wishes Urs -- Urs Liska www.openlilylib.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting off a new community book project
Hi Urs, I and some of my friends working with LilyPond mostly produce lead sheets for folk/scout/pop songs and some simple choir scores. For beginners it’s a challenge to get scores with chord names and lyrics, plus additional verses at the end. I’ll gladly provide my template that also shows how to use variables to allow different versions (PDF and MIDI) etc. I also have my own workflow of including LilyPond code within ConTeXt (the LaTeX alternative) to make songbooklets. see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond I can’t promise to help with anything else at the moment (CSS, Python, Bash would be candidates). Greetlings, Hraban Am 2015-06-25 um 01:41 schrieb Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org: Hello fellow LilyPonders, recently Federico raised my attention by pointing out the release of a new book on Mastering MuseScore. After some discussion, consideration and poking around I decided to lay the foundation for a new community book about a) LilyPond and b) the plain text complex with LilyPond, LaTeX and Git. Actually it's not a new idea but one that was already in the back of my mind when I started the openLilyLib tutorials and the respective type of posts on Scores of Beauty. There always was the wish to gather this sort of information to a more or less coherent entity like a book. So what I have by now is not presentable but it's in a state that I can (and have to) announce it in the form of a call for contribution. The idea of the book is to focus on those topics that the mailing list reveals to be regular stumbling blocks for new (or sometimes also seasoned) users. We want to assist them by gently going into great depth where the official documentation has to remain concise and reference-like. What I'm most interested in personally is that step from the needs of occasional or regular users to the more involved but also more exciting things, talking about aspects like getting into the spirit of using Scheme, or best practice suggestions to organize larger projects. For quite some time this book will have more empty than written pages, and it doesn't have to aim at becoming a coherent textbook. But I hope that we may achieve something that is comprehensive in the sense that it helps people diving more deeply in the LilyPond world. The book is authored in Markdown using GitBook (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook), a Node.js application that builds the book as a statically served HTML site. The official URL (where you can already have a first glimpse) is http://book.openlilylib.org, and the development repository is at https://git.ursliska.de/openlilylib/book. There is another location where unmerged branches will be automatically built to when pushed, for example http://bookbranches.openlilylib.org/scheme-tutorials. It will be possible to edit the pages online or locally, with the local way being somewhat more flexible but requiring the installation of a few tools and dependencies. Now I'm asking for contribution in several fields: 1) Improving the infrastructure and appearance. The most urgent issue is adding a CSS stylesheet for the table of contents. The regular TOC is always expanded, and it is clear that the TOC of that book will soon become inacceptably long. So we need a foldable/expandable navigation bar where initially most items are folded. Probably there's room for other improvments in the styling of the book, but that's not that urgent. There are other things on the functionality side where I'd be happy not to be alone with. These would involve some Node.js, Python and bash programming. 2) General discussion about potential contents, i.e. working on the outline of un-written chapters 3) Content contribution. One thing that might be attractive to start with is integrating existing posts from Scores of Beauty. This may be trivial in some cases, in other cases one has to do significant rearrangements. As development and deployment take place on my personal server I can't fully open up the access, which means that anyone who wants to contribute has to ask me explicitly for an account. Best wishes Urs -- Urs Liska www.openlilylib.org ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Greetlings, Hraban --- fiëé visuëlle Henning Hraban Ramm http://www.fiee.net http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting off a new community book project
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hello fellow LilyPonders, After some discussion, consideration and poking around I decided to lay the foundation for a new community book about a) LilyPond and b) the plain text complex with LilyPond, LaTeX and Git. Hello, Urs and LilyPonders - I'm interested, but unable to contribute much right now. Once I get two other projects reasonably complete, I'll let you know and I'll start trying to contribute. I just wanted to let you know that I am interested, because I did not want you to drop the project through lack of interest. Ralph -- Ralph Palmer Brattleboro, VT USA palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting off a new community book project
Am 25.06.2015 um 08:02 schrieb Jacques Menu: Hello Urs, Great idea! I can contribute with contents such as the attached. You mean with directions how to achieve such material? That would be fine, just make a suggestion how to fit it in an outline (doesn't matter if it would still be out of context). Urs JM Le 24 juin 2015 à 21:41, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org a écrit : Hello fellow LilyPonders, recently Federico raised my attention by pointing out the release of a new book on Mastering MuseScore. After some discussion, consideration and poking around I decided to lay the foundation for a new community book about a) LilyPond and b) the plain text complex with LilyPond, LaTeX and Git. Actually it's not a new idea but one that was already in the back of my mind when I started the openLilyLib tutorials and the respective type of posts on Scores of Beauty. There always was the wish to gather this sort of information to a more or less coherent entity like a book. So what I have by now is not presentable but it's in a state that I can (and have to) announce it in the form of a call for contribution. The idea of the book is to focus on those topics that the mailing list reveals to be regular stumbling blocks for new (or sometimes also seasoned) users. We want to assist them by gently going into great depth where the official documentation has to remain concise and reference-like. What I'm most interested in personally is that step from the needs of occasional or regular users to the more involved but also more exciting things, talking about aspects like getting into the spirit of using Scheme, or best practice suggestions to organize larger projects. For quite some time this book will have more empty than written pages, and it doesn't have to aim at becoming a coherent textbook. But I hope that we may achieve something that is comprehensive in the sense that it helps people diving more deeply in the LilyPond world. The book is authored in Markdown using GitBook (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook), a Node.js application that builds the book as a statically served HTML site. The official URL (where you can already have a first glimpse) is http://book.openlilylib.org, and the development repository is at https://git.ursliska.de/openlilylib/book. There is another location where unmerged branches will be automatically built to when pushed, for example http://bookbranches.openlilylib.org/scheme-tutorials. It will be possible to edit the pages online or locally, with the local way being somewhat more flexible but requiring the installation of a few tools and dependencies. Now I'm asking for contribution in several fields: 1) Improving the infrastructure and appearance. The most urgent issue is adding a CSS stylesheet for the table of contents. The regular TOC is always expanded, and it is clear that the TOC of that book will soon become inacceptably long. So we need a foldable/expandable navigation bar where initially most items are folded. Probably there's room for other improvments in the styling of the book, but that's not that urgent. There are other things on the functionality side where I'd be happy not to be alone with. These would involve some Node.js, Python and bash programming. 2) General discussion about potential contents, i.e. working on the outline of un-written chapters 3) Content contribution. One thing that might be attractive to start with is integrating existing posts from Scores of Beauty. This may be trivial in some cases, in other cases one has to do significant rearrangements. As development and deployment take place on my personal server I can't fully open up the access, which means that anyone who wants to contribute has to ask me explicitly for an account. Best wishes Urs -- Urs Liska www.openlilylib.org http://www.openlilylib.org ___ 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: Starting off a new community book project
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:41:31 +0200 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: The official URL (where you can already have a first glimpse) is http://book.openlilylib.org, I get all kinds of weird things while trying to read this in FF 38.0.5. See screenshot. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Starting off a new community book project
Il giorno mer 24 giu 2015 alle 23:29, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl ha scritto: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:41:31 +0200 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: The official URL (where you can already have a first glimpse) is http://book.openlilylib.org, I get all kinds of weird things while trying to read this in FF 38.0.5. See screenshot. I cannot reproduce it on FF 38.0.5, everything looks ok here. Try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15954513/text-rendering-issue Even though that option is checked in my preferences. It may depend on your hardware resources. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
