From 72b7f0f1feb3b3232b5263eb9652d13a43fa85f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Graham Percival Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:04:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: add instructions for articulate.ly; thanks Peter! --- Documentation/usage/external.itely | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/usage/external.itely b/Documentation/usage/external.itely index 49fd542f8f..c90ad626bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/usage/external.itely +++ b/Documentation/usage/external.itely @@ -592,6 +592,27 @@ and @code{\include} them manually. @node MIDI articulation @subsection MIDI articulation -TODO stub for info about Dr. Peter Chubb's @file{articulate.ly} +LilyPond can be used to produce MIDI output, for +@qq{proof-hearing} what has been written. However, only dynamics, +explicit tempo markings, and the notes and durations themselves +are produced in the output. + +The @emph{articulate} project is one attempt to get more of the +information in the score into he MIDI. It works by shortening +notes not under slurs, to @q{articulate} the notes. The amount of +shortening depends on any articulation markings attached to a +note: staccato halves the note value, tenuto gives a note its full +duration, and so on. The script also realises trills and turns, +and could be extended to expand other ornaments such as mordents. + +@example +@uref{http://@/www@/.nicta@/.com@/.au/@/people/@/chubbp/@/articulate} +@end example + +@knownissues + +Its main limitation is that it can only affect things it knows +about: anything that is merely textual markup (instead of a note +property) is still ignored. -- 2.39.5