Re: articulate problem (Marc Hohl)

[Marc Hohl]

Am 20.08.2011 23:38, schrieb Patrick Karl:
> [...]
> > (here, we don't want to get printable scores).
> >
> > HTH,
> Why don't we want to get printable scores here?
\articulate is made for improving lilypond's MIDI output, nothing more, 
nothing less.
In the header of ly/articulate.ly, it says

% This script tries to make MIDI output from LilyPond a little more 
realistic.
% It tries to take articulations (slurs, staccato, etc) into account, by
% replacing notes  with sequential music of suitably time-scaled note plus
% skip.


If you'd try to write your scores *exactly* as they should sound like, 
the resultig score
would be almost unreadable. That's where the articulations come in handy.

\articulate just does the reverse: it translates all the articulation 
stuff into an (internal)
representation which sounds better when played as a MIDI file.
>   It would be interesting to see what \articulate has done to the music, 
> possibly with the prospect of modifying it.
AFAIK, you could tweak the output by changing the defaults within 
ly/articulate.ly, but you would not
see any of them in your printed output, as a scaled quarter note still 
looks like a quarter note.
>    And in any case if we do want to get a printable score here, wouldn't we 
> like it to be accurate?
No, I don't think so.

It is just that
c4-. c-. c-. c-.

is far more convenient to read as

c16 r r8 c16 r r8 c16 r r8 c16 r r8

or even

c32 r r16 r8 c32 r r16 r8 c32 r r16 r8 c32 r r16 r8

depending on how you play a staccato, for example.

[...]
> Anybody have an idea on the GenericResourceDir problem?
No, sorry.


Regards,

Marc