Re: Grand Advanced Stylesheet Project (GASP)

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2015-01-19 um 09:44 schrieb Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:

> Hi all,
> 
>> I had been surprised not to find a template for the “lead sheets” I’ve been 
>> making.
> 
> Yes!
> 
> Let’s start making a list of the “big picture” targets:
>    piano solo
>    instrument solo/part
>    orchestra score
>    choir, a cappella
>    choir plus piano
>    piano + voice, art song
>    piano + voice + guitar chords, popular
>    chamber score (2-4 players)
>    piano chamber score with cue staves
>    pipe organ solo
>    lead sheet
> 
> Other obvious ones?

I most often use lead sheet (one or two voices, lyrics and guitar chords, more 
stanzas below) or the same for choir (i.e. 4 voices, guitar chords, additional 
stanzas).

I also prepared a template for rounds - while they fit easily into a general 
lead sheet for printing, they need a bit more work for multi-voice MIDI output. 
But I didn’t use it often enough to be content with it yet.

I can provide my templates and include file, they serve me rather well, but I 
don’t think they will fit some majority, and are a mixture of different kinds 
of settings that you’ll better decouple:
- spacing
- fonts
- header
- "hide everything that I don’t need/like" (no indent of first line, no measure 
numbering, no page numbers)
- chord display (e.g. lowercase letters for minor chords, no symbol for maj7)
- MIDI setup (instrument, volume, stereo settings)
- shortcuts for some common tweaks (e.g. chords in braces, smaller or cross 
note heads...)

My templates contain a lot of commented lines with commands/tweaks that I 
sometimes use, so that I don’t need to look them up again. That might fit 
templates in Frescobaldi, but isn’t suitable for stylesheets that you just 
include without looking at them.


Greetlings, Hraban
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Henning Hraban Ramm
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