Re: Anyone using a tablet for lily?

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 13:56 -0400, Carl Peterson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Eduardo Silva
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         
>         What I would be interested in is a WYSIWYG editor that would
>         be able to take down notes and output a basic ly file, perhaps
>         to Dropbox.
>         
>         
>         Hi, I think there are some editors for Android/Ipad that will
>         at least output to ABC or MusicXML, you could try exporting it
>         from there, no?
> 
> 
> Probably could. The issue I've had with point-and-click editors in
> general is that they add a lot more information than I necessarily
> want. I compose almost exclusively for SATB voices. I have a template
> that--in coordination with editing some of the internal Scheme
> files--allows me to input each voice as a variable and then does the
> automatic part combining. I also put bar and break information in a
> separate voice, so the only thing I want in the LP output are bare
> music essentials of notes, slurs and ties (and maybe a couple of other
> things that escape me at the moment). I've tried to use both MuseScore
> and Denemo to speed up the compositional work and output a file I can
> use in my template, but I've found that I spend more time stripping
> their output of all the extra information that the template doesn't
> need than I do if I just used my usual type and test workflow. There
> may be a setting for them not to output this information. If there is,
> I don't know about it.

You could write a scheme script for Denemo that would do that. Each note
in Denemo has the relevant LilyPond attached to it, so you could just
step through the staff collecting it up and then output it to a file.

Richard



> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
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