kepo-ing Zz85

Just a quick post here because there are 3 exams papers in the next few days which I’m not prepared for yet.

Having to do some quick typesetting, I found it useful to use the tool nwc2ly.py I did few years back.

There are few issues I’ll address here as the website is outdated with some invalid html.

1st. the link to get the script is can be downloaded or viewed using sourceforge online svn browser here.

2nd. my email previously at joshakoo/at/myrealbox.com has been abandoned years since
a. I couldn’t seemed to log on at times. b. Some messages could be deleted from the server, and some downloads seem stuck using the pop3. c. It was filled with spam. I can be contacted via zz85/at/users.sf.net anyway.

Anyway here’s some tips for using nwc2ly.py. If there a piece of music available in midi format, I would import it using NoteWorthy Composer. Then I’ll clean up and highlight the parts which I need. I’ll create a new NWC file, and add a single staff in as I found the script usually work without flaws this way.

I’ll run the nwc2ly python script, followed by the lilypond’s convert-ly script to update to the latest syntax. I’ll run lilypond and maybe make some extra changes and fine tune the score. I usually work with LilyPondTool in jEdit and except that the shortcuts for running nwc2ly and convert-ly don’t seem to work for now, but can only look into it when I got the time.

Thats for now, and hopefully anyone who needed help to use nwc2ly.py could have gotten some tips here.