Re: On features planned for 2.20 and Documentations on Contemporary Music

[Joshua Nichols]

Maybe something like a Wiki where you can also upload scanned images?

I like that idea! I see stuff all the time, I'll start collecting image files. Who should be in charge of setting up the wiki? (I wouldn't mind)

IC,

Josh

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Joshua Nichols <address@hidden> schrieb:

>Thanks to Kieren, David, and Phil for your responses. Kieren, that was
>a
>fantastic snippet.
>
>I guess I would be willing to help, but I have no where to begin to
>start
>that process. I would love to come up with some documentation on
>contemporary music, but it seems that LilyPond does convential stuff
>REALLY
>well, in contrast to contemporary music which takes heavy tweaking and
>coding to accomplish it.
>
>So, if there is something I can do to help out with the documentation,
>let
>me know!

Maybe a good start would be to set up a place and collect things that _you_ would like to have. Once that is in place others can add items or solutions.

Maybe something like a Wiki where you can also upload scanned images?

Urs

>
>IC,
>
>Josh
>
>
>On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Kieren MacMillan <
>address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> > I was wondering if any "examples" of contemporary notation were
>ever
>> going to be put in the documentation. I know there is a spot for
>that, and
>> when I've checked back several stable versions, and alas... nothing.
>>
>> As others have pointed out, we [the community] need to step up and
>fill
>> that gap.
>>
>> > Perhaps fractional time signatures, like "3/3, or 3/(dotted
>sixteenth)?”
>>
>> Here’s something I’ve been using:
>>
>> \version "2.17"
>>
>> tsModern =
>> #(define-music-function
>>   (parser location dur)
>>   (ly:duration?)
>>     #{
>>       \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil =
>> #ly:text-interface::print
>>       \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'text =
>>         \markup \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \center-column {
>>           \number #(number->string (car (ly:duration-factor dur)))
>>           \note-by-number #(ly:duration-log dur)
>#(ly:duration-dot-count
>> dur) #DOWN }
>>       \time #(cons (ly:moment-main-numerator (ly:duration-length
>dur))
>>           (ly:moment-main-denominator (ly:duration-length dur)))
>>     #})
>>
>> theMusic = {
>>  \tsModern 16.*7 R16.*7 |
>>  \tsModern 4*3 R4*3 |
>>  \tsModern 16*12 R4*3 |
>>  \tsModern 32*5 R32*5 |
>> }
>>
>> \score { \theMusic }
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>> Kieren.
>
>

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