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Re: producing "archival" scores
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Aaron Dalton |
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Re: producing "archival" scores |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:37:05 -0600 |
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Josiah Boothby wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Valentin Villenave <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello everybody, hello Jason,
>>
>> I would like to add my 2 cents here: though LilyPond syntax evolves
>> indeed very quickly, you'll always be able to find the version of
>> LilyPond which was in use when you first typed your score, on
>> http://lilypond.org/web/install/older-versions or
>> http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/sources/
>>
>> This is why open-Source gives some "guarantees" (well, relatively at
>> least) you won't be able to find with any other proprietary software:
>
> Just to clarify one small thing: I think that it would be nearly
> impossible -- or at least extraordinarily difficult -- to compile on a
> modern distribution of Linux a sufficiently old version of Lilypond so
> that ancient .ly files can be used directly. The nice thing about the
> old ly files is that the syntax is usually similar enough that if
> convert-ly doesn't work, most of the note-entry should be
> straightforward to reuse, leaving organization and tweaking to be done
> (for me, that usually takes about half of the time of preparing a
> score, so that's not so bad).
>
Don't the new distributions *include* all the dependencies? The FreeBSD
and Windows packages seem to. I don't have an extra box to experiment
with though. In any case, I agree that the note entry syntax doesn't
change and that represents (for me anyway) 90% of the work. I will
still rely on Lilypond for archival scores. Proprietary software won't
cut it (as explained earlier) and MusicXML seems insanely verbose to me.
The snippet at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML is way too long
just to get a clef, time signature, and middle C.
Cheers!
--
Aaron Dalton | Super Duper Games
address@hidden | http://superdupergames.org
- producing "archival" scores, Jason Merrill, 2007/04/04
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Tim Reeves, 2007/04/05
- Re: producing "archival" scores, stk, 2007/04/05
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Valentin Villenave, 2007/04/05
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Josiah Boothby, 2007/04/07
- Re: producing "archival" scores,
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- Re: producing "archival" scores, Jason Merrill, 2007/04/07
- Re: producing "archival" scores, Aaron Dalton, 2007/04/07
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- Re: producing "archival" scores, Aaron Dalton, 2007/04/09
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- Re: producing "archival" scores, Simon Dahlbacka, 2007/04/10
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