Re: Empty music sheet generator in LilyPond

[Carl Sorensen]

On 9/7/11 9:24 AM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden> wrote:


> 
> Please let me know what you think about it, before I'll announce it on -user.
> For example, if you feel that some score type is missing, it's really easy to
> add more than the currently available.

Way cool!  This is marvelous.  I think it's an absolutely brilliant app,
with very nice execution.

I think there should be a 2-staff choir with piano reduction type.

I think "Quartet" is misspelled as "Quartett" in string and piano.
> 
> I'd also like to see how well it scales to more than one user. Lilypond takes
> a bit to create the score (and also the preview), so if you have any idea how
> to speed up lilypond, I'd like to hear it, too.

LilyPond takes a while, but it's indicated in the preview, so I think it's
OK.  Cached scores are instantaneous.

> 
> Currently, I'm caching all already created scores and previews, so lilypond is
> only run once for each size / sysstem count / type / etc. combination.
> 
> I did not enable manual input of title/subtitle/composer/etc. on purpose,
> because that will increase the server load dramatically, because caching is no
> longer possible then (each different title requires a separate lilypond run).
> If you really need to create your custom title on an empty score page, mail me
> privately and I can tell you how to enable those controls. But I won't make it
> available to the general public.

If you could put a null markup placeholder in the generated .ly, then
anybody who needed it could handle it by themselves, as long as they had
LilyPond.

> 
> PS: With the landscape paper formats you can see an example of bug 1819
> (http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1819 )

Yes, it's definitely there.

Thanks,

Carl