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by Synival
Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:02 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Composing & Publishers
Replies: 24
Views: 14549

horndude 77: I just installed the latest unstable release (running Ubuntu linux), and used musicxml2ly to convert the .xml file exported from Finale. The results aren't quite right: http://www.simonbielman.com/pdf/sonata_2_lilypond.pdf Everything's fine at first, but at measure 84 something really f...
by Synival
Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:53 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Composing & Publishers
Replies: 24
Views: 14549

I just spent a bit of last night reading through Lilypond tutorials. With their current stable release, their examples didn't compile, or compiled with errors :( I'm torn about that program, because I've seen some of the things that it can do pretty easily, like true beaming across the bar line, con...
by Synival
Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:47 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Composing & Publishers
Replies: 24
Views: 14549

It took me years to get to the point where I could enter a score into Finale and learn enough formatting tricks to make it look readable. A lot of the default settings for beaming and slurs are very ugly, but with enough tweaking you can get them to look "correct". The biggest problem is t...
by Synival
Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:33 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Composing & Publishers
Replies: 24
Views: 14549

Hmm, I guess my post was misleading. The scores I have are already entered into Finale, so I don't need to pay anyone for engraving. Everything I have at the moment is already in PDF format, ready to go. So a printing service is what I need, not a publishing service. But it's still nice to know peop...
by Synival
Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:53 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Composing & Publishers
Replies: 24
Views: 14549

Well, I'm not thinking that "being published" is going to skyrocket me to any fame or bring in any cash or anything, but what I would like are scores that look and feel nice, and are nicely bound. I'm definitely planning to keep stuff online since that's the smart way to do it nowadays.
by Synival
Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:51 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: IMSLP and Contemporary Composers
Replies: 1
Views: 2057

IMSLP and Contemporary Composers

Hey everybody, I'm a composer myself and I'm working hard to get pieces I've written off the ground and into the real world. Does IMSLP offer (or plan to offer) and services for active composers, or will it always be strictly public domain scores? This site is such a great resource (so glad it's bac...
by Synival
Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:47 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Composing & Publishers
Replies: 24
Views: 14549

Composing & Publishers

Hey all, I'm a composer and I'm finally getting serious and thinking about submitting works for publishing. Does anybody have any thoughts on which publishers are good? I'm probably a bit over my head here, but it would just be too cool to have scores of mine professional published with my name in t...