Re: converting Egmont Overture files - help!

[Mats Bengtsson]

Sorry, here comes the attachment.

  /Mats

Andrew Clark wrote:
> > Andrew Clark wrote:
> >     
> > > I had never heard of Lilypond before last night - I found the score for the
> > > Egmont and it was already a converted pdf and it looked like the perfect
> > > arrnagement for my chamber ensemble.  So I downloaded the parts folder and
> > > for some reason I just can't figure out how to convert the files using
> > > Version 2.11.8-1 on a macmini (not Intel) running Tiger.  I did get them
> > > from Mutopia.  Here's what happens in Lilypond:
> > >
> > >
> > > first the update syntax runs like this
> > >
> > >
> > >  convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.11.8
> > > Processing `/Users/andrewclark/Desktop/Egmont-lys/timpani.ly'...
> > > Applying conversion: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.12, 2.5.13, 2.5.17,
> > > 2.5.18, 2.5.21, 2.5.25, 2.6.0, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.4, 2.7.6, 2.7.10,
> > > 2.7.11, 2.7.12, 2.7.13, 2.7.14, 2.7.15, 2.7.22, 2.7.24, 2.7.28, 2.7.29,
> > > 2.7.30, 2.7.31, 2.7.32, 2.7.32, 2.7.36, 2.7.40, 2.9.4, 2.9.6, 2.9.9, 2.9.11,
> > > 2.9.13, 2.9.16, 2.9.19, 2.10.0, 2.11.2, 2.11.5, 2.11.6
> > >
> > > then typeset does this with a crash/hang up at parsing
> > >
> > > Processing `/Users/andrewclark/Desktop/Egmont-lys/timpani.ly'
> > > Parsing...
> > >
> > >
> > > any advice or help solving this problem would be great because I saw a lot
> > > of other music I would love to use
> > >   
> > >       
> > As I've already said, you will have to add some lines of  "code"  that
> > tells
> > LilyPond to generate individual parts as well. I would propose to make
> > a separate .ly file that generates all the individual parts. In the
> > attached file
> > I have started doing that. You have to fill in the corresponding
> > \score{...} lines for each of the other instruments. Look into the file
> > Egmont.ly to see how the music for each instrument is named.
> > You may also want to do some minor editorial changes to the other
> > input files. For example, Stelios who input the original file, wrote out a
> > separate rest for each measure even when the rest is several measures long.
> > This means that LilyPond will not be able to combine them into a multi
> > measure
> > rest. Since this isn't a problem in the full score, he probably didn't
> > notice it.
> > However, in the flute parts, for example it isn't really readible.
> > That's easy
> > for you to fix. For example, in the file flautoone.ly, line 16, replace
> > R1. R1. R1. R1. R1.
> > by
> > R1.*5
> > A few lines later you replace
> >  R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2. R2.
> > by
> > R2.*12
> > and so on (I'm sure you get the idea).
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> >    /Mats
> >
> >     
>
>
> Thank you for your help - I didn't get the attached filed with your email -
> could you resend?
>
>
>   

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        Mats Bengtsson
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        Royal Institute of Technology
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\version "2.10.0"

% These lines are copied from the score generating file Egmont.ly

\include "flautoone.ly"
\include "flautotwo.ly"
\include "oboi.ly"
\include "clarinetti.ly"
\include "fagotti.ly"
\include "cornif.ly"
\include "cornies.ly"
\include "trombe.ly"
\include "timpani.ly"
\include "violinoone.ly"
\include "violinotwo.ly"
\include "viola.ly"
\include "violoncello.ly"
\include "basso.ly"

\header {
  title = "Overture to Egmont - Opus 84"
  composer = "Ludwig van Beethoven"
  mutopiatitle = "Overture to Egmont - Opus 84"
  mutopiacomposer = "Ludwig van Beethoven"
  mutopiapoet = "Ludwig van Beethoven"
  mutopiainstrument = "orchestra"
  date = "19th Century"
  source = "Dover Publications - Breitkopf and Hartel"
  style = "Classical"
  copyright = "Public Domain"
  maintainer = "Stelios Samelis"
%  lastupdated = "2005/March/29"
  
%  footer = "Mutopia-2005/04/10-547"
  tagline           = "\\parbox{\hsize}{\\thefooter\\quad\\small \\\\This music 
is part of the Mutopia project, \\texttt{http://www.mutopiaproject.org/}\\\\It 
has been typeset and placed in the public domain by " + \maintainer + 
".\\\\Unrestricted modification and redistribution is permitted and 
encouraged---copy this music and share it!}"
}

% Make sure that the full header is printed for each separate part
% but not an extra time for the full document:
\paper{
  bookTitleMarkup = ##f
  printallheaders=##t
}

% Don't print out every single measure for multi measure rests:
\layout{
  \context{
    \Score
    skipBars = ##t
  }
}

\score{
  { \flautoone \pageBreak }
  \header{instrument = "Flauto 1" }
}

\score{
  { \flautotwo \pageBreak }
  \header{instrument = "Flauto 2"}
}