From: Andrew Faraday jbturgid@hotmail.com To: lorenzofsutton@gmail.com; matju@artengine.ca; pd-list@iem.at Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux
and *thus* Lorenzo thinks:
"It doesn't make much sense to use Pd as a [something-else-differnt-than-audio-creator] as it is primerily an [Audio-creation-something]
A good workman never blames his tools... But the best workman in the world won't paint a room with a screwdriver. Ultimately you do need the right tools for the job.
I was intending to write a score for a choir to actually sing, although it has to be said, the delay between writing lilypond code and seeing the score in a readable format is a huge barrier.
If you use LilypondTool it's as simple as:
- map the "|" key to run lilypond
- every time you finish a bar make sure to put a barcheck, which happens to also be "|"
Voila! When you type "|" Lilypondtool scans the input to make sure you have the correct number of beats-- if you do, Lilypond prints out the score and you see a pdf preview in Jedit. (If you don't, it still prints it out and Lilypond gives a warning telling you how many beats short you are in that measure.) -Jonathan
There's a further delay between that and me sitting down at the keyboard to play the music, make variations, then go through the cycle again. Not quite a screwdriver, perhaps, but a squirrels tail?
The part were you implicitly go from (cery) specific to general and back to specific again is the weakest - in my humble opinion ;)
Lorenzo.
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