Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Bernard
And, you can't easily markup the score with a pencil... I don't think Avid Scorch supports annotations as yet, either. This is relevant to lilypond discussions, as having lilypond target fine printed output is going to be valid for a very long time to come, I reckon. Andrew On 24/04/13 3:11

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Bernard
Again, maybe I am out of date but I need to see a full page of music, and even a full two page spread to see what's coming up and what's gone past when playing, not two or three systems, so that I have a wide musical context. And US Letter is still narrow. But then again, to show I am not just

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Carl Peterson
In landscape orientation, the width of the iPad screen is about 7.75 inches (don't have one personally, but using the Pythagorean theorem on a 9.7" diagonal), which is about a quarter-inch wider than a line of a US-Letter size printing with 1/2 inch margins (7.5" line length, about 190 mm). So you

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread David Kastrup
Andrew Bernard writes: > Call me old-fashioned or antique, but despite their ubiquity, iPads > and Kindles are just too small to read music from at any proper > distance. There is a reason music scores are on large paper - > readability. When iPads get to 235 x 310 mm screens (Klavierformat > pia

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Bernard
Call me old-fashioned or antique, but despite their ubiquity, iPads and Kindles are just too small to read music from at any proper distance. There is a reason music scores are on large paper - readability. When iPads get to 235 x 310 mm screens (Klavierformat piano score paper size) then maybe

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/4/24 Francisco Vila : >>It seems a shame, because the Tex source probably contains all >> the information one would need to produce a nice e-book) > Maybe this http://www.latex2html.org/ can help, if you can customise > it for your needs. Also google for "latex to epub" and many options aris

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/4/24 Vaughan McAlley : > (As an aside, I’ve lately been learning Tex by publishing my mother’s > autobiography. The book should look great. If I want to create a > version for e-readers, it looks like I have to get to ePub via HTML > format. It seems a shame, because the Tex source probably co

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-24 Thread Klaus Föhl
Vaughan McAlley writes: > (As an aside, I’ve lately been learning Tex by publishing my mother’s > autobiography. The book should look great. If I want to create a > version for e-readers, it looks like I have to get to ePub via HTML > format. It seems a shame, because the Tex source probably contai

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 23 April 2013 02:01, Klaus Föhl wrote: > > Hello, > > As Urs initiated quite some discussion with his 'lobbying' paper, > I shall turn my ballpen-on-paper notes from Frankfurt into Bytes... > ... my comments, clarifications {} ... > > organised by scorio { it took some locals to get that done }

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:43 + schrieb Klaus Föhl: > Janek Warchoł wrote: > > Many thanks for this report! You made me realize that i didn't > > promote LilyPond actively enough. We have unique features to offer > > and people in the music industry should know about us. > > As the Lily

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Föhl
Janek Warchoł wrote: > Many thanks for this report! You made me realize that i didn't > promote LilyPond actively enough. We have unique features to offer > and people in the music industry should know about us. As the Lilypond name was mentioned a few times in that said meeting, my impression w

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-23 Thread Janek Warchoł
Many thanks for this report! You made me realize that i didn't promote LilyPond actively enough. We have unique features to offer and people in the music industry should know about us. cheers, Janek 2013/4/22 Klaus Föhl : > Hello, > > As Urs initiated quite some discussion with his 'lobbying' p

Re: some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Hello, As Urs initiated quite some discussion with his 'lobbying' paper, I shall turn my ballpen-on-paper notes from Frankfurt into Bytes... ... my comments, clarifications {} ... organised by scorio { it took some locals to get that done } workshop (open to the public) entitled Beyond PDF - Exc

some Musikmesse and MusicXML

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Föhl
Dear all, Earlier this month I was at Musikmesse. As I had some time to spare (a music sheet house was absent) I attended a scorio-sponsored/organised workshop on MusicXML. I declared myself as an [evening] choir conductor and LP user. After a few introductions Michael Good was collecting sugge