Re: Music Notation/Interpretation question

2016-04-08 Thread Andrew Bernard
Sorry, rubbish. Not standard musical praxis. Think about it – you would often have to have all notes on the right or left. One never sees this. The dispostiion of notes either side of the stem is for clarity of reading to avoid overlap. Pure and simple. But … there are contemporary composers w

Re: Music Notation/Interpretation question

2016-04-08 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 08.04.2016 22:38, Alberto Simões wrote: Hi This is not exactly a Lilypond doubt... but imagine a chord, in a left hand piano piece, with Lilypond will eventually put c and g at the left of the note stem, and d and a at the right (what it does exactly is not relevant for the question).

Re: Music notation in our lives survey RESULTS

2015-04-21 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:39:00PM +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Hi Abraham, > Thanks for sharing the results. > And I'm surprised too : 5a persons, that's roughly 20% of the member's list > (I'd bet on 100 persons at least). > Too bad. I missed this survey... But FWIW, what is my affili

Re: Music notation in our lives survey RESULTS

2015-04-21 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi Abraham, Thanks for sharing the results. And I'm surprised too : 5a persons, that's roughly 20% of the member's list (I'd bet on 100 persons at least). Too bad. Cheers, Pierre 2015-04-21 23:21 GMT+02:00 Abraham Lee : > All, > > I realize that I was just keeping this information to myself, so I

Re: Music notation in our lives survey (all please read)

2014-07-29 Thread tisimst
Guy Stalnaker-2 wrote > Abraham, > > There is an omission in your survey "relation" to music -- composer! I > use LP/Frescobaldi because I write choral music (and occasionally organ > music). They in combo are by far, IMO, the best products for my > purposes. I suppose 'publisher' might fit, bu

Re: Music notation in our lives survey (all please read)

2014-07-29 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Abraham, There is an omission in your survey "relation" to music -- composer! I use LP/Frescobaldi because I write choral music (and occasionally organ music). They in combo are by far, IMO, the best products for my purposes. I suppose 'publisher' might fit, but as yet I've never had a piece

Re: music notation for soprano ukulele

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 9/7/10 1:55 AM, "Steve Yegge" wrote: > Hello Lilypond gurus, > > I've been getting a bunch of requests for a tab or chord-diagram > transcription of a ukulele piece I posted on YouTube.  Is there any > hope?  The tuning is awful -- er, I mean, traditional, with the strings > not increasing

Re: music notation for soprano ukulele

2010-09-07 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 7 September 2010 09:55, Steve Yegge wrote: > > Hello Lilypond gurus, > I've been getting a bunch of requests for a tab or chord-diagram > transcription of a ukulele piece I posted on YouTube.  Is there any > hope?  The tuning is awful -- er, I mean, traditional, with the strings > not increasin

Re: music notation fonts

2008-03-30 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm very glad to see such a large open-source effort for music > notation. I've actually started working on a similar project > myself, although my intent is to make a GUI-based notation > application (along the lines of Finale or Encore) rather than a > batch system. Good luck :-) > As I'm s

Re: music notation

2007-10-31 Thread bernie arai
i am also definitely not a programmer, and i really value the quality and control that i get using lilypond (after migrating from finale). it's just a matter of making a paradigm shift from wysiwyg score editting to text-based score engraving. fwiw, i got finale 2000 to work on my linux box under

Re: music notation

2007-10-31 Thread notesetter
Later versions of Finale export to musicXML. Check to see if this is supported by a newer version of notepad. If not, you may need to have help from someone working with a full version of Finale. Good luck, Dave Graham Percival-2 wrote: > > The lilypond-user mailist can answer this in more de

Re: music notation

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Reeves
Steve Sedberry wrote: > I've been using Finale Notepad, 2000 version, for the past six years or so and > am interested in moving from Windows 98 to an open source operating system. I > am interested in using Lilypond and am hoping to import my finale notepad files > into the Lilypond program

Re: music notation

2007-10-31 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007 schrieb Graham Percival: > The lilypond-user mailist can answer this in more detail than the bug > list, so I have CC'd them. The short answer is that non-programmers can > use lilypond without problems, but I do not believe that finale files > can be imported to lily

Re: music notation

2007-10-31 Thread Graham Percival
The lilypond-user mailist can answer this in more detail than the bug list, so I have CC'd them. The short answer is that non-programmers can use lilypond without problems, but I do not believe that finale files can be imported to lilypond. The best route is probably musicXML, but I'm not cer