Why use this when you could just use Lilypond, which is free, open source, and has a legacy in TeX: https://lilypond.org.

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10 months ago

> since its width was set to 0 Is this totally necessary? It might be. I don’t know much about font programming. If the values have to be hard-coded. If you can get me a contact info, I could send you the master list of chords.. Maybe you could use that. > I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org Lilypond is a music engraving system. That…

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10 months ago

So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures… I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org.

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10 months ago

At lilypond.org I found some tips, but they all were for the complete score.

I don’t want my score to be compressed or have smaller notes as I’m rewriting the music because the original notes are to small for me.

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11 months ago

As far as open-source software is concerned, you can use Lilypond [1]. Fully text-based transcription. You can edit, insert, splice, overwrite, etc. To your heart’s content in your favorite text editor and get a high-quality engraving as output. [1] https://lilypond.org/.

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about 1 year ago

For the intrepid, especially those annoyed with the purported input-sluggishness of musescore et al, an interesting text-based alternative is LilyPond https://lilypond.org/ My dad wrote an opera using LilyPond in vim, though I believe these days he’s actually doing more with supercollider, which skips sheetmusic and goes right to sounds: https://supercollider.github.io/.

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about 1 year ago

I’ve been meaning to play around with lilypond.org. It’s text-based, which makes it easily scriptable, and I have some ideas… But that’s just for niche things.

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over 1 year ago

Have I got a thrill for you! https://www.mutopiaproject.org https://lilypond.org https://www.hacklily.org …it really helped me understand why “$SCORE = ( $MELODY + $BASS )” was sometimes superior to viewing sheet music as a “wall of notes and chords”. You have to “play the wall” as it comes at you, but mentally, thinking of it as “melody goes la la la, bass goes boom bang boom” helps to provide context to what…

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over 1 year ago

LilyPond musical score notation language.

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over 1 year ago

If you are comfortable with common practice notation (sheet music), but want something “not like musescore” check out LilyPond and Frescobaldi. LilyPond is a “music engraving” program that compiles text files to common practice notation PDF files. It also converts data from and to MIDI files for use with other software. Frescobaldi is an editor optimized for LilyPond files.

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over 1 year ago

I typeset music with Lilypond, which has an existing emacs package I’ve been using for a while. Most recently I’ve been arranging string accompaniments, and I’ve gotten into a workflow where I drag the midi file that Lilypond generates into a logic session where I’ve already recorded guitar/voice so I can hear them together. But it was so many mouse clicks! So I wrote a python script that uses…

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over 1 year ago

LilyPond is the best and it is completely free, open-source software. Its output is beautiful, it supports many different types of notation, and it has very fine control of layout. However, creating scores in LilyPond is like creating web pages in HTML. It is similar to writing code in a programming language. It is philosophically similar to the typesetting program TeX. It isn’t for everyone, there’s a steep…

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almost 2 years ago

But have you tried lilypond? It’s been my go-to for music notation over the years. Also allows inclusion into LaTeX documents. Looks like there’s a few examples in the documentation that would indicate your requirement might be the default.

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almost 2 years ago

This reminds me a lot of LilyPond: https://lilypond.org/ (which has the advantage of being free, but maybe slightly less user-friendly?).

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almost 2 years ago

You can produce better-looking scores with Lilypond. It’s pretty labor-intensive, so I’d recommend only starting with it once your score is mostly complete.

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almost 2 years ago

If you’re a musician, definitely check out the music engraving software LilyPond!

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almost 2 years ago

I use LilyPond for notation. It does an excellent job at producing beautiful looking scores. However, it’s not an easy tool for getting ideas down. To capture ideas, I use an audio recorder app on my phone.

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about 2 years ago

Maybe start with a practice journal type of deal, using like lilypond to generate notation for exercises, I just started using practice time but having a web site or standalone version would be nice instead an android app.

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about 2 years ago

There are a couple of notation formats designed to represent music notation in plain text; abc music#:~:text=The%20ABC%20notation%20is%20a,%2C%20flats%2C%20ornaments%2C%20etc) and lilypond. Both of these were meant as a way to transmit music via plain text more than they for meant to be read by performers. The Nashville sumber system is a more or less text notation system that is intended to be used by performers.

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about 2 years ago

Lilypond with the Frescobaldi front end is one open source solution.

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about 2 years ago

But some of us use our text editors for programming in a great many languages (possibly including homespun DSLs), writing long-form documents, writing music, and many other ways of communicating with the computer.

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over 2 years ago