[scribus] Gregorian scores in Scribus

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 21 November 2009 03:24:56 Pierre Couderc wrote:
> Well, we are speaking here of Gregorio, not Lilypond.
> Gregorio is extremely simple : you can read the doc of the 
language : it
> is a few pages.
> Gregorio is more limited and more simple than Lilypond, but 
does well
> what we ask it : Gregorian scores.
> It is extremely efficient : you write scores very quickly.
>
> And yes, it is a language, you must read the doc and 
understand it.
> Music people know languages :  a score is a language.
> You must learn the language, you need well a couple of hours 
for that...
> So if you have less than a page to write, keep the pencil and 
the
> manuscript.
> Else read the doc and use Gregorio.
> And there are no complex brackets : if you are able to read a 
normal
> score, you are able to create it with Gregorio.
>
> For the question of GUI, yes, there is a graphic environment : 
Scribus.
> With Scribus, Gregorio is in a graphic environment exactly at 
the same
> level as LaTeX or Lilypond in Scribus.
> But there no other GUI available, even if some are in project.
>
>
> Pierre
>
> CLIVE CATTERALL a écrit :
> > Just a quick music typesetting question...
> >
> > Pierre, do you use a GUI front end for Lilypond? Four or five 
years ago I
> > sweated entering some motets by Victoria and got so fed up 
with the
> > lilypond punctuation, incomprehensible parsing messages, 
difficulties
> > lining up syllables/melisma etc. that I went back to pencil 
and
> > manuscript paper. I liked the output of Lilypond. Good 
typesetting does
> > make sightreading easier, especially for older 
singers/players. You can
> > read the note groups by "words" rather than by "letters".
> >
> > But ...
> >
> > I'm not a software engineer - I hate keeping track of nested 
blocks,
> > angled brackets etc. - and the lilypond developers are well 
known for
> > their dislike of GUIs. I see that good things have been done 
more
> > recently with third party software that produces .ly output. Do 
you have
> > experience of any front-ends?
> >
> >
> > Clive
> >
> >
> >
> >
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I inquired of the Mup list how one would do Gregorian on a four 
line staff using that program. The output of Mup is PostScript. A 
very minor edit of the PostScript file will render the top line 
invisible, e.g., 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's a one-line change to the PostScript output.  You'll find this line:

1 lines sub  2  lines 1 sub {   % loop from bottom line to top line

in the "/staff" subroutine.  If you change the second "1" to be a 
"2", it won't draw the top line.  Of course everything else remains, 
such as bar lines being the same length as always, etc.
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I should add that square note heads are a standard option in Mup. 
Just another alternative.

PostScript is a language. It is easily convertible to pdf or even 
eps. But unlike pdf it is easily editable. Look up 


 http://www.cappella.demon.co.uk

on the internet and you will find instructions on creating 
documents directly in PostScript.   
-- 
John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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