Re: Lilypond to typeset solfa style Indian music

[ananth p]

I like both the Ideas. Will try them and let you know.

thanks for the tips.

ananth

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Wols Lists <address@hidden> wrote:

On 28/07/10 18:21, Mike Solomon wrote:

I’d recommend entering your lyrics like normal and using notes or spaces in the staff.  Then, do massive amounts of transparency overrides and/or context removes.  The internals reference should give you a lead on what to turn off.  Also, check out:

staff-container.ly
staff-size.ly

Lastly, you’d want to raise the lyrics, which can be done w/ extra-offset (and probably other things).

~Mike

That sounds to me like a lot of work - per piece of music!

If you're going to do that (and I don't know carnatic so I don't know whether this could work) couldn't you create a "carnatic.ly" and a carnatic "font" so you can enter your notes as normal. Then just suppress the staff so the "notes" print as notes, with the lyrics attached.

Cheers,
Wol

On 7/28/10 6:27 PM, "ananth p" <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I've been using lilypond for quite a while to typeset scores.

I'd like to typeset Carnatic (Indian) music scores, which don't use Staff notation system. Just text, like solfa, nevertheless it's a music system with durations, meters, barlines etc.

I can use the 'lyrics' part to enter my notes. No staff needed. Now, is it possible to space and align these notes just as lily does on staff?

Here's a piece of example score I tried to typeset with Latex - http://twitpic.com/2998r0/full

Thanks for any help

cheers,
Ananth

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