Re: Help

[Valentin Petzel]

  Hello Leonid, 
  
 
  
 even if you do not know how to implement this yourself, one way you could help in getting there is to find these features you think should be canon and give us some details on them. It just increases the probability that someone takes interest in this if can say "It would be good to have this kind of feature" instead of saying "someone should read this book and implement things from it". 
  
 
  
 Cheers, 
  
 Valentin

20.11.2021 17:58:16 Leonid Hrabovsky <lhrabovsky@gmail.com>:

Agreed! Nevetheless, in my modest opinion, the easiness of modern notation in LilyPond would be greatly upgraded if one might take the book of Edgard Karkoschka on the XX century notation and check out most common features used by all composers discussed in this very informative book - it will turn out that there are 5-6 such common features (like frame or proportional notation, some few lines and symbols) that might be easily added to the whole pool. In comparison to enormously rich resources devoted in documentation to ancient and medieval notation (circa 100 noteheads only!), it looks like the needs of modern composers are somehow overlooked...

Леонід - Leonid

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On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:08 AM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

>> there is a significant reason related to the nature of contemporary
>> notation: it is usually nonstandard.  Every composer has their own
>> systems.  Given that, it's hard to know what is relevant for
>> putting in the core.
>
> That is true to a great extent… but there are things (like the
> aleatoric box/frame engraver!) that [with a few parameters] are
> arguably "universal", and thus obvious candidates for inclusion.

I agree.  IMHO, it would be a very valuable contribution to add this
snippet directly to LilyPond, together with proper documentation that
also demonstrates how to use it.


    Werner