A GUI Engraving Plugin
Hi everyone!
I write a lot of ragtime, and I've considered engraving my music to make it look more antique. I tried Frescobaldi (the Linux LilyPond equivalent), but I'm just not talented enough at coding for it to be efficient. Ergo, I immediately thought of a graphic-based system, that required a minimal amount of (or maybe no) coding. Is this something we could work into a plugin, or is it too complex and am I in way over my head? Thank you!
(Side note: If this would be too big for a plugin, I wouldn't mind seeing this worked into a future version of Musescore.)
Thank you!
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Is there any example of how it should look?
In reply to Is there any example of how… by Ziya Mete Demircan
I am particularly drawn to these styles:
Thank you!
Of course, I don't want to rip off Mr. Keenlyside, but this I just wanted to give an idea of what I was looking for.
In reply to I am particularly drawn to… by Zach Franklin
I have created a small example style layout except for the text-fonts: Old-style.mss
I also added the default one (as a backup).: Default.mss
Copy it to the relevant musescore user folder (Styles).
You can Load it from the "Style" Menu.
PS: The changes are not too extreme. but it may be important for those who care about small differences. (like: Barline thickness, Beam Thickness, Flatten beams, Slur/Tie Thickness, Musical-Font, Hairpin sizes etc.)
Wtih Default style:
![Default-mss.png]( "Default-mss.png")
With Old-Style:
![Old-Time-mss.png]( "Old-Time-mss.png")
It's not really clear what you are asking. You want to achieve that specific look with MuseScore? That wouldn't be a matter of plugins but of fonts mostly. Have you tried all the ones MuseScore provides for notation, or others for text? If you mean you want to use MuseScore to enter ntoes and then have LilyPond process it, the way to do that is to export the standard MusicXML format from MuseScore and then run a MusicXML to LilyPond converter. There are apparently at least a couple out there, including one built in to Frescobaldi.
In reply to It's not really clear what… by Marc Sabatella
Oh, I see. My idea was a plugin that would bring up a palette of different styles, which one would then choose from and make the score look a certain way.
I wasn't aware of different notation fonts or the Music XML - Frescobaldi converter,which would solve my problem. Thanks for informing me about those!
Also, how do you access the notation fonts?
Sorry that I wasn't clear, and thank you for the reply!
In reply to Oh, I see. My idea was a… by Zach Franklin
Currently versions of MuseScore provide three different notation fonts, accessed from Style / General. For text, you have access to any font on your computer, via Style / Text (different options for different types of text). Future versions of MuseScore will provide additional font options.
Aside from fonts, you can also play with other options in Style / General, like beam thickness (one of the more obvious quirks of the second example).
In reply to Currently versions of… by Marc Sabatella
Very cool, I'll check it out! Thanks