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Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)


From: Mike Kilmer
Subject: Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:13:43 -0600

Speaking as a newbie, I also love this idea, as I’m understanding it. I had been surprised not to find a template for the “lead sheets” I’ve been making.


On Jan 18, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Tom Cloyd <address@hidden> wrote:

I have to say that I like this idea a LOT. Like Urs' suggestion too. Seems like this should just be a part of the "package" - kind of an adjunct to the exceptional documentation that has always been a part of Lily.

Tom
(classic guitar)

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Tom Cloyd <address@hidden> wrote:
I have to say that I like this idea a LOT. Like Urs' suggestion too. Seems like this should just be a part of the "package" - kind of an adjunct to the exceptional documentation that has always been a part of Lily.

Tom
(classic guitar)

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Am 18.01.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
Hello all!

I recently sent a post about my choral piece, and had to *not* use my choral stylesheet. Seeing what the default output looks like lit a fire under my butt to get a stylesheet project going ASAP — I haven’t really seen a default Lilypond score (as opposed to tiny snippets) in at least two years, and had honestly forgotten how unelegant it looks.

My idea is that we have a basic set of stylesheets for the main types of scores — e.g., piano solo, organ solo, instrumental solo/part, choir, full score, etc. — which can be \include-d by the user to give a truly beautiful default appearance right out of the box.

By way of an example, my choral_octavo stylesheet results in the attached screenshot (which shows the top ½ of the first score page of my setting of “When You Are Old and Grey”). To my eye, that is significantly superior to the default output.

I realise that a lot of the final, fine-detail decisions would be subjective… But I offer that there would be many benefits to including with the standard distribution a well-crafted (e.g., with default fonts, better spacing parameters, better titling options and layout, etc.) hierarchical collection of default stylesheets that individuals could call with a simple (e.g.)

     \stylesheet “choral_octavo”

and then extend (e.g., incorporating non-standard fonts, etc.) as needed/desired.

Would anyone be interested in working on this with me?

I definitely am.
However, I'm not sure if integrating it into LilyPond itself is necessarily the right direction. Maybe having it as a semi-official library would be more manageable?

A suggestion regarding the interface: how about

    \include "stylesheets/choral/octavo.ily"

There could be a hierarchy of different building blocks, and the actual include file would pick from them what it needs and optionally add more items to the stylesheet.

Urs


All the best,
Kieren.
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Kieren MacMillan, composer
www:  <http://www.kierenmacmillan.info>
email:  address@hidden
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