Re: how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-16 Thread Thomas Morley
2015-11-17 1:40 GMT+01:00 Andrew Bernard : > Hi Ryan, > > I feared as much. I assume you are talking about the curve in the extract > from your sample, attached for reference. > > Lilypond slurs are Bezier curves that have two control points. That means > you can’t create arbitrary wavy curves like

Re: how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Ryan, I feared as much. I assume you are talking about the curve in the extract from your sample, attached for reference. Lilypond slurs are Bezier curves that have two control points. That means you can’t create arbitrary wavy curves like that with that object – you need a large number of

Re: how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-16 Thread Ryan Michael
I see in the Lilypond Reference That you can specifiy for example, the shape of a Phrasing Slur by giving control points. E.g. \shape #'((0 . -1) (5.5 . -0.5) (-5.5 . -10.5) (0 . -5.5)) PhrasingSlur However, is there a way to do this outside of a slur context? Namely I would like to draw curves l

Re: how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-16 Thread Ryan Michael
The curves, say, on the second treble staff, in the image. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Dear Ryan, > > Oh my goodness. Almost as hair raising as the contemporary scores I have > to set. Which curves exactly do you mean? Could you circle them on the > image or otherwi

Re: how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-16 Thread David Bellows
Hey Ryan, One way to cheat is to export as an svg file and then edit it in something like Inkscape and then export that as a pdf. You can create all sorts of really cool vector graphicy things pretty easily that way. Unfortunately you cannot then translate that stuff back into your Lilypond file s

Re: how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
Dear Ryan, Oh my goodness. Almost as hair raising as the contemporary scores I have to set. Which curves exactly do you mean? Could you circle them on the image or otherwise indicate what you need? There exist a variety of different methods for curves of various sorts. Andrew On 15 Nov 2015,

how to simulate or vectorize free hand curve notation

2015-11-15 Thread Ryan Michael
I have some glissandi curves that I would like to input into my lilypond score. Is it possible to load some vectorized equivalent across x Bars? Or to simulate my original hand drawn curves somehow? Here is the example of the notation style I would like to make: https://www.mediafire.com/?eb1c0gw7