Re: Circular Staff in Inkscape [was Re: Lilypond vs Score]

[Tim Reeves]

M Watts <address@hidden> wrote on 02/04/2010 05:18:40 AM:

> 
> > I have to admit - I tried it and it's not easy to get a staff to 
conform
> > to a circle, for example. Maybe someone else can. My Inkscape skills 
are
> > weak, though I love the software.
> >
> 
> 
> Not sure how to wrap the entire staff in a circle, but you can easily 
> draw a circular staff in Inkscape:-
> 
> Draw a circle (F5) with Ctrl held down, 115 px in size;
> 
> Get outline only by Ctrl+Shift+F, click the X under Fill, and flat color 

> (2nd left) under Stroke paint (or click the X near bottom left of 
> window, and Shift-click a coler for line color);
> 
> Clone it 4 times (Alt + D);
> 
> Hit F1 and make sure the circle and all clones are selected by drawing a 

> selection box around the circle (the status bar will tell you if they're 

> all selected; you anly see the top one);
> 
> Open the Transform dialog (Shift+Ctrl+M), go Scale, width & height both 
> 110%, and make sure 'Scale proportionally' and 'Apply to each object 
> separately' are both checked.
> 
> Click Apply :)
> 
> Btw, Inkscape has layers -- use them if you don't want to be constantly 
> dragging the wrong notes and whatnot around.
> 


Thanks, but this I could do, if I wanted to.
What I'd rather do is typeset the piece entirely in Lilypond, *then* warp 
and twist it, clone it, shade it, blur it, etc. with Inkscape. I know it 
can be done, I just lack the Inkscape-fu to do some of those things, 
specifically the first one.
Bertalan's trick is also very cool, but requires a lot of tweaking to get 
the stems at the correct angles, etc., and isn't very flexible.

Tim Reeves