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Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?
From: |
Paul Harouff |
Subject: |
Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug? |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:03:08 -0600 |
I've been using
Lilypond for the past week and just installed Lily4jEdit. I am transcribing a
complete Eastern Orthodox Christmas Vigil church service from
Russian Znamenny Chant to English and am extremely frustrated at how hard
it is to troubleshoot command errors. It's taken me 4 days to get only 3
hymns done because all the undocumented tweaks that I've had to search for.
It took me 4 hours just to figure out how to turn off the time
signature. I'm still having trouble with text running off the page or
getting centered in the margins instead of over or under the score.
I finally figured
out that the only way to represent chant lyrics is to associate the first
syllable and last syllable with their own notes then quote the text in between
so it centers under the breve. This is the only way to force all of the lyrics
to center under its own measure. Unfortunately, the justification is
less than desirable because the quoted text is not padded, but it's
readable.
I was expecting
to have the whole service completed while I was on vacation this week. I've been
having to compile after every measure to catch my errors in phrasing the English
to the Russian melody. I'm hoping that using jEdit will help speed up the
process, if I can figure out how to get the hyperlinks between the console and
pdf windows working.
Anyway ... the
bug:
My very first
attempted procedure using the jEdit plugin was to update my file from 2.9.17 to
2.11.2.
I noticed that
Convert-ly will not accept path names with spaces. I don't know if this bug is
already reported or if the problem is the plugin is not passing the filename
to Convert-ly with the path quoted properly. I had to map a drive
letter to the folder where the file is located and remove spaces from the
filename before the update would process.
Paul
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