Re: A small but vexing problem (fermatas in several voices)

[Phil Hézaine]

Le 31/12/2010 00:26, Alexander Kobel a écrit :
> On 2010-12-30 22:44, Michael J. O'Donnell wrote:
>> Annoyance: the expressive part needs skips of the durations
>> corresponding to the notes in between the expressive marks. Someday, I
>> hope that LilyPond will have the facility to mark temporal points in
>> various parts so that they can be aligned without counting out the beats
>> correctly in each one. This would be structurally analogous to the use
>> of TABs in a single line of typed material, but it would not be
>> associated with lines of music, rather with entire scores.
> 
> This idea of defining "anchors" or "targets" in the music is a
> long-standing [*], much-awaited request for enhancement.  See
> <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=824>, and be sure to
> check out Gilles' workaround (comment #2).  I never tested Gilles' code,
> though, and I'm not sure whether it will work in the upcoming 2.14.
> 
> [*] I think this idea is much older than the report filed in the tracker.
> 
> Unfortunately IIUC this amounts to a quite invasive change in the whole
> LilyPond structure of parsing and handling input, and is unlikely to
> appear in the not-so-near future.  Especially since it does not increase
> overall functionality or output quality, and it's easy to overcome for
> freshly written LilyPond scores with reasonably clever variable definitions.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexander

Hi Michael,

If you are stopped with this issue I think I could change my files to
integrate one more variable with only the fermatas and rests. Would be
usefull for you? Anyway if I want to edit the 'breakpoints' in GNU
Solfege and avoid headaches, I need it later. However I work from the
Breitkopf's edition. It seems, at a rough guess, there aren't different
for that point but are containing only 371 chorals which are written on
2 Staffs. I've typed around 300 Chorals and I'm finally going to type
the whole thing. (ISMLP could be happy.) With a template and Frescobaldi
it isn't so difficult. Your work is very interesting for me because if i
have the ansvers about the use of a free license and the sources of
jsbchorales for a book, updating the files will be much easier. I'm
confident each of us are near the end of it, in a complementary way.
By the way, we also are near the end of 2010.
Happy New Year.
Phil.