Re: Jianpu Notation

[Carl Sorensen]

On 4/22/15 10:55 PM, "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>>>Ok, the problem was that your music file was for LilyPond 2.19 and
>>>jianpu3.ly only works with 2.18.
>> 
>> Have you proposed adding this to LilyPond?  It seems like this would
>> be a promising thing to add to the core, since it's another standard
>> notation.
>
>But it's still *far* away from the look of normal jianpu notation as
>used e.g. for the Erhu in Taiwan.  Attached you can find a typical
>example, created with the a1soft program, together with a
>`translation' to lilypond.
>
>Note that I don't say that the output of a1soft program is optimal
>compared to manually printed jianpu scores.  But lilypond's output is
>still too different.

Ah, I see. the current output is a sketch of Jianpu, but not really Jianpu.

That's a good reason to have it available, but not in core.

Thanks,

Carl