Re: seeking tips for transcribing a modernist score

[Justin Glenn Smith]

Clearly I sent this question out too soon, because I got yet another issue: how 
best to do a pair of triplets, that share one note between them (the last note 
of one triplet is the first note of the next)? Use an s in the beginning of the 
second triplet and move it over to the left? Make a postscript outline in 
inkscape and just put it in the score as an image?

On 05/04/2012 10:45 AM, Justin Glenn Smith wrote:
> As a personal exercise I am attempting to reproduce a printed score from
> an ex-teacher. I have encountered a few difficulties for which I would
> appreciate suggestions.
>
> Notes have an explicit accidental even for natural (similar to the
> dodecaphonic accidentals style), but only for their first use in each
> measure (this is actually a style I have seen in other places too, for
> example a Xenakis String quartet I was studying). I looked at the scheme
> code for defining accidental styles (I have programmed in scheme
> before), but I figured I would ask here for tips or on the off chance
> someone has already defined this before attempting to define a new
> accidental style. Of course I can continue using ! to force naturals as
> appropriate, so this is a low priority issue (more an annoyance in a
> large score than anything else).
>
> I am having problems with a single measure in 8/6 time. Lilypond
> complains that it is a strange time signature (which it indeed is), and
> I cannot get a bar check to work properly (I am doing bar checks for
> every measure and bar number checks for each numbered bar to help make
> sure I am following the written score). In other cases where the bar
> check did not work (where a "whole note" rest meant a whole measure
> regardless of measure length, or a measure had a missing beat) I would
> use s (invisible notes) in order to duplicate the appearance of the
> original score (never sure whether the issue was an error or an idiom
> /experiment of some sort that is unfamiliar to me). Is there a way to do
> 8/6 without nesting it in \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff commands?
>
> Relatedly, there is a rest notated as a half rest with the number 5
> above it and the number 6 below it, which seems from context does indeed
> seem to be a rest of 5 "6th notes" - I am assuming I just need to
> directly tell lilypond to display the symbols using markup commands and
> use either candenza or s invisible notes to make the measure work? If I
> had written the score I would have just done a tempo change (which seems
> much more sane), but I am attempting to recreate an existing document.