Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Anton Curl
On 27/04/2015 15:45, Urs Liska wrote: Maybe LilyPond could run through only the first stage (i.e. without producing graphical or MIDI output) and analyze the score. On that way it parses all existing contexts and could maybe determine the positions of all music content. It could then output

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Carl Sorensen: On 4/26/15 10:55 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: In what way are measures missing? Half the world calls them Œbars¹ by the way - that¹s what they are under in the index. Are you simply referring to terminology in the

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/15 10:55 PM, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com wrote: In what way are measures missing? Half the world calls them Œbars¹ by the way - that¹s what they are under in the index. Are you simply referring to terminology in the documentation? LilyPond creates bars (the things that

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, In what way are measures missing? Here’s one example: you can add/modify/delete a Staff [context] with a single command; you cannot add/modify/delete a Measure. Cheers, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email:

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.04.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to make that clear). +1 What would be good to have is a notion of select

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi there, after just reading all these important threads partially, I want to jump in. I want to encourage Urs' position - and if I understand correctly, Carl does not object ;) The lilypond way of working made it easy for me, to spot errors in a score I received as musicXML. There where

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to make that clear). +1 What would be good to have is a notion of select everything in measures 2-4 - over all possible parts as

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/27/15 6:37 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Urs, I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to make that clear). +1 Just to clarify my intent -- I'm

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-27 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm still trying to get a list of musical concepts that you commonly use to talk about music that are either missing or hard to find in LilyPond. So far we have a set of two: Instruments Measures Are

Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Carl, In what way are measures missing? Half the world calls them ‘bars’ by the way - that’s what they are under in the index. Are you simply referring to terminology in the documentation? Andrew On 27 April 2015 at 14:17:26, Carl Sorensen (c_soren...@byu.edu) wrote: Hi all, I'm

Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

2015-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
Hi all, I'm still trying to get a list of musical concepts that you commonly use to talk about music that are either missing or hard to find in LilyPond. So far we have a set of two: Instruments Measures Are there any others that you can think of? Thanks, Carl