Re: Update on graphical notation package

[Mike Solomon]

Hey all,

On 10/24/10 9:13 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>    I forget if I sent this out or not - sorry in advance for any double
>> postings!  A score I wrote using the graphics notation package that I
>> developed for Lilypond will have its UK premiere on the 4th of December in
>> Canterbury and its French premiere on the 5th of December in Dunkirk.  The
>> score is on:
>> http://www.apollinemike.com/norman7
> 
> Quite beautiful! If I may, how do you explain that the PDF file is so heavy?
That has to do w/ my graphical notations package...its principal problem is
that it creates HUUUUGGGGGEEEEEE files.  I don't really know a good way to
make them skinnier in the postscript language, but I have a feeling that if
I tweak the flags I send to ghostscript, I can slim these files down.

>> Some of you have already expressed interest in using this package - please
>> let me know if you'd like the code and if you'd be interested in helping
>> out!  Furthermore, if you live by either of those cities, let me know if you
>> can make the show and I'd be happy to meet up w/ you afterwards to show you
>> the score & the way I made it in Lilypond.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's quite a long way from here (well, as far as French
> standards go anyway). But I hope that some day I can see the source of
> your score :-)
Agreed - when I lived in Paris, I had trouble motivating myself to get from
the Cité Universitaire to the Cité Universitaire RER station just across the
street.

> BTW: what's the license? (please tell me that you have a
> non-proprietary license!)
This is not proprietary and is under whatever license Lilypond is under (I
probably should state this more officially, but I'm bad at anything having
to do w/ intellectual property).

The source is on http://www.apollinemike.com/lilypond/vgs
Very very experimental - they'd have to invent negative letters in the Greek
alphabet to describe the type of testing people would have to do on this
thing to bring it to the alpha stage.  That said, have at it!

Cheers,
Mike