Prospective Lilypond user looking for others who are setting traditional music - Thanks for all the replies

[Philip Whittaker]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

I shall be replying to each in person. In the meantime;

I do have some experience of note dragging software. Sibelius 6 on
Acorn computers - so I would be interested in an interface along those
lines, but had assumed that Lily pond was driven by scripts in text
format.

I also have some experience of setting some tunes in ABC format. There
are a few of my transcriptions to ABC in the large collection, The
Fiddler's Companion, now on the internet. I would be interested in
ABC2ly and shall try that out.

I should have mentioned that both my computers are running Windows XP.
That OS was essential to my post in education and now I have retired.
I am sympathetic to the principles of open source software but have
not looked too deeply. I have mostly used Linux as an alternative to
Windows to get out of problems that Windows XP has thrown at me, in
paricular not showing me files. However ,I am prepared to use Linux,
if there is a need for this.

I have received a file of a sample tune, from James,  which answers
many of the questions I had. I now need to try to recreate the .pdf
using his file.

If anyone wants to send me an additional files, of traditional music,
in a single melody - typically jigs or reels, please do.
I shall be adding chord symbols and would like to compare the way that
James uses them to the more official method.

I am  interested by the mention, by Ralph, of a  'book' facility for
setting a whole book using Lilypond ( perhaps including an idex
generator?). However I feel that, first, I need to set myself a
realistic target of setting a set of three tunes - perhaps from
originals in ABC format.

Thanks for all your help. If you want to send me further examples of
traditional music that you have set, please do. I'd appreciate
examples which are mostly single melody lines with chord symbols.
Please send both the .ly file and the resulting .pdf
I'd particularly appreciate an example of say, three tunes in set,
with the name of the set at the top and the name of each tune at the
start of tune; and where appropriate the composer. eg;

The Gay Gordons set

The Headlands - Ronnie Cooper
Stichill Linn - Martin Marroni
Linda Macfarlane

(If anyone is interested, an mp3 file of this set can be found here;
http://www.clartycloot.co.uk/audio.htm)

I realise that two of these tunes can be found in ABC collection on the net.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Philip