IMSLP upload policy (was: Re: Orchestral strings, how to organise score and parts for divisi, solos, desks etc.)

[Rutger Hofman]

On 6/1/20 10:45 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> On 6/1/20, Rutger Hofman <rutger@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
[snip]
> On that note:
>
> > One elaborate example of my experiences is found in the score and parts
> > of "3 Bruchstücke aus Wozzeck" by Alban Berg, see
> > https://imslp.org/wiki/Wozzeck%2C_Op.7_(Berg%2C_Alban)
>
> I appreciate that you’re making available your source code, but you
> could simply embed it within the PDF files (LilyPond can do that
> now!).  See for example
> https://imslp.org/wiki/Oboe_Concerto_No.1_in_E-flat_major_(Herschel%2C_William)
> (btw, I generally prefer publishing all individual parts as a single
> PDF; people can then print whatever they want within it, but it makes
> it *much* easier for ensembles out there in my experience,
> particularly when IMSLP starts imposing a 15-second delay for all
> downloads.)

I know that pdftk can add attachments to PDFs. Is that now also built 
into Lilypond?

My preference for uploading parts is the other way around, i.e. the way 
I did it. The parts alone for this typeset total to 311 pages. I don't 
like the idea of 100 orchestra members each downloading that huge thing, 
also enhanced with a few megabytes of lilypond source, and then each 
selecting their own part from it. And to make things worse, orchestra 
members might just not print the title page for their part, thereby 
ruining the possibility to print double-sided because my carefully 
crafted page turns are bogged.

I would of course never urge anybody to get an IMSLP membership :-), but 
the fee is (un)reasonably small (a few collaboration actions for IMSLP 
would already suffice). And if only the orchestra librarian has an IMSLP 
membership, it would allow her to download all parts as a zip and then 
distribute them. But in any case, 10 seconds delay would be dwarfed by 
the alternative of downloading and perusing 311 pages.

Rutger