Lilypond

[OCTO]

http://lilypond.org/

I have been always very fascinated with SCORE. Lilypond has similar way to execute engraving procedure. I wonder if here is anyone using it on regular basis.

I am also curious about the efficiency of making scores in Lilypond (fixing errors, re-arranging, copy pasting), spatial notation, beams over bar-lines, complex nested tuplets, full scores (hiding staves, divisi, combining woodwinds).

I would definitely like to learn more about it. It seems for me like Latex for music.

[Schneider]

Hi OCTO,

I'm a LilyPond daily user.
For example, here's a funny thing I made few weeks ago : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1005
LP's biggest advantage is the unlimited possibilities that it offers.

Cheers,
Pierre

[Fred G. Unn]

For example, here's a funny thing I made few weeks ago : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1005

That's pretty cool! I might have to investigate Lilypond more myself.

[OCTO]

Indeed, very nice.
Pierre, would you be interesting in engraving some examples, what I think is "advanced", and what I find in my engraving/music very often?
It would be great to compare these results! My examples are done in Finale.

[Schneider]

Sure ! Looks challenging

[OCTO]

Sure ! Looks challenging

Thank you.

Here is an example. There are missing woodwinds and brass. Therefore maybe some small spacing deviations.

[RMK]

Hi OCTO,

I'm a LilyPond daily user.
For example, here's a funny thing I made few weeks ago : http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1005
LP's biggest advantage is the unlimited possibilities that it offers.

Cheers,
Pierre

Wasn't this originally set with Graphire Music Press?

http://www.graphire.com/Pages/Framesets ... mpexam.htm

[Schneider]

Yep, absolutely (Graphire reference put on top of my coding too - simply click on the image to show the code)

@OCTO : I downloaded your pdf this afternoon, and will take a close look ASAP.

[Schneider]

@ John,
See: viewtopic.php?p=497#p497

I've never cared much for the LilyPond clefs, which is a big turnoff for me. The note heads look a little heavy to me, as well.[...]

I always hated the LP standard treble clef and from the very beginning. Now I found that it has a very big advantage: one can recognize a LP score immediately.
Now regarding the note heads, thanks for pointing this out.
I never noticed that before and your are absolutely right! I'll try to fix that, it shouldn't be very difficult to do.

[Schneider]

So, here it goes:

LilyPond standard note heads:

proko-example-lily.png (75.88 KiB) Viewed 14320 times

LilyPond reduced note heads:

proko-example-lily-smaller-note-heads.png (76.88 KiB) Viewed 14320 times

... Not sure if it's that much visible on the jpegs though.