Re: Tremolo positioning

[Joshua Parmenter]

Ignoring modern style sheets means not being able to type-set for  
those companies. Which also means using Finale or Sibelius.

Or, perhaps this can be configurable. Maybe a stylesheet could be  
loaded?

And I apologize for not introducing myself and my situation. I was  
directed here from a MANTIS thread with Denemo. Basically, I'm a  
composer that does quite a bit of open-source development (mostly  
with SuperCollider). I've been using Finale forever, and am tired of  
paying for upgrade after upgrade. Also, since I have acquired some  
coding skills, and have just finished graduate school, I am looking for:

a) an alternative
b) a project I can expand personally to meet my needs (in my own  
copy... if need be)
c) possibly a project that wants so assistance with development.

I spent a good 5 years learning how to make Finale do what I wanted.  
I'm ready to invest time like that again if that kind of assistance  
is wanted. So, that's where I am coming from. Most of my notational  
needs are with extended 20th century technique... something no  
typesetting program does well... the ability for lilipond to use TeX  
obviously opens up many possibilities... I find this exciting.

Look forward to learning the program, and, if it is wanted, possibly  
helping with development.

Best,

Josh

On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Joshua Parmenter wrote:
> > I'll do this tonight (when I'm home with my scanner).
> > Looking over some older scores, I definitely see examples like the  
> > one sent earlier... but over 10 years of typesetting, most current  
> > style sheets (if memory serves me correctly) specify slanted  
> > tremolos. I'll actually see if I can dig up the Durand style sheet  
> > (the one I've seen most recently) and see if ti specifies.
>
> I would be most interested in a xerox/scan of this document.
>
> Schirmer's style guide shows slanted tremolo beams on horizontal  
> beams, but I admit that it looks rather disconcerting. Let's do  
> what the classics do, and ignore modern style sheets.
>
>
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>
> Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
>
> LilyPond Software Design
>  -- Code for Music Notation
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Center for Digital Arts and  
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Raitt Hall - University of Washington
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