Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

[Michael Ellis]

Hi Phil,
The problem is pretty well solved. I'm just cleaning up a few things
in my scripts today.

 I don't have all the answers yet regarding copyrights.  Margaret
Greentree's site seems to claim copyrights only to the PDF images and
those are freely shared for non-commercial use.  So I'm not quite sure
how that might apply to works derived from the MusicXML files.

My thought was to release my versions with attribution to her and a
Creative Commons license with similar conditions -- free use for
non-commercial purposes with attribution and share-alike.

Initially, I'm going to put the files into a googlecode site so it's
easy to allow more than one person to edit them.  I'll be happy to add
your name to the list of "developers" for the site.  Later on, I want
to put up a free site that can serve PDF, midi, and mp3 files.

Looking forward to working with you!

Cheers,
Mike



On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Phil Hézaine <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le 31/12/2010 00:26, Alexander Kobel a écrit :
>> On 2010-12-30 22:44, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote:
>>> Annoyance: the expressive part needs skips of the durations
>>> corresponding to the notes in between the expressive marks. Someday, I
>>> hope that LilyPond will have the facility to mark temporal points in
>>> various parts so that they can be aligned without counting out the beats
>>> correctly in each one. This would be structurally analogous to the use
>>> of TABs in a single line of typed material, but it would not be
>>> associated with lines of music, rather with entire scores.
>>
>> This idea of defining "anchors" or "targets" in the music is a
>> long-standing [*], much-awaited request for enhancement.  See
>> <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=824>, and be sure to
>> check out Gilles' workaround (comment #2).  I never tested Gilles' code,
>> though, and I'm not sure whether it will work in the upcoming 2.14.
>>
>> [*] I think this idea is much older than the report filed in the tracker.
>>
>> Unfortunately IIUC this amounts to a quite invasive change in the whole
>> LilyPond structure of parsing and handling input, and is unlikely to
>> appear in the not-so-near future.  Especially since it does not increase
>> overall functionality or output quality, and it's easy to overcome for
>> freshly written LilyPond scores with reasonably clever variable definitions.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alexander
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> If you are stopped with this issue I think I could change my files to
> integrate one more variable with only the fermatas and rests. Would be
> usefull for you? Anyway if I want to edit the 'breakpoints' in GNU
> Solfege and avoid headaches, I need it later. However I work from the
> Breitkopf's edition. It seems, at a rough guess, there aren't different
> for that point but are containing only 371 chorals which are written on
> 2 Staffs. I've typed around 300 Chorals and I'm finally going to type
> the whole thing. (ISMLP could be happy.) With a template and Frescobaldi
> it isn't so difficult. Your work is very interesting for me because if i
> have the ansvers about the use of a free license and the sources of
> jsbchorales for a book, updating the files will be much easier. I'm
> confident each of us are near the end of it, in a complementary way.
> By the way, we also are near the end of 2010.
> Happy New Year.
> Phil.
>
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