Re: ASCII Music Notation?

In article <KkGs4.96$gz3...@sapphire.mtt.net>,
Shaun Mead  <sha...@ns.sympatico.caREMOVE, CAPITALIZED, TEXT> wrote:
> > 
> > You can pick up a copy of GNU LilyPond at:
> > 
> >    ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/v1.3/lilypond-1.3.25.tar.gz
> > 
> > or see
> > 
> >    http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond
> (snip)

> Hey, looks like you actually used some of my suggestions!

Yes, well the biggest probem is the pitch on the 5 char staff.  I feel
the 9 char staff is too big to be of real use.

Maybe, for black notes, we could go

    ---------------|--
    -------|---|---|--
    ---|---|--x|--*---
    --x|--*-----------
    ------------------

but it's currently not possible to have different note heads (*,x) for
similar notes.  I hope to pull a trick somehow.  However, the white notes
are even more tricky.  You made some elaborate attempts, but they're not
so cute (imo), rather difficult to read and not easily interchangeable


    ------------|---|--
    --------|---|-,-|--
    ---|--,-|--O|-`-'--
    --O|--`-'----------
    -------------------

That's why I'm a bit tempted to go
                     
    ---------------|--
    -------|---|---|--
    ---|---|--o|--�---
    --o|--�-----------
    ------------------

for now.

> Although I downloaded it and still haven't got a clue on god's green
> earth how to even _start_ the program. Looks nice anyway.

Thanks.
What operating system do you use?  What you donwloaded, are the
sources to the program.  You did unpack the .tar.gz archive,
didn't you? 

If you're running Windows, it may be a bit difficult to get it
compiled.  The latest binary available is for version 1.2.0, iirc.
This may be addressed shortly.

In any case, in the directory `lilypond-1.3.25/mf/' you find some
files, that contain my efforts for all musical characters so far:

  lilypond-1.3.25/mf/as5.af,
  lilypond-1.3.25/mf/as9.af,  and
  lilypond-1.3.25/mf/as-number4.af

you can have a look at those without running the program.

Don't hesitate to ask for further instructions, though!
Greetings,

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org