codello / pdq

A versatile stylesheet for LilyPond.

The PDQ LilyPond Stylesheet

This is the PDQ LilyPond Stylesheet, a simple to use modern layout for scores and parts. The code is on GitHub, the documentation is available here.

Installation

The stylesheet uses non-standard fonts that need to be installed before PDQ can be used. In order to use the stylesheet do the following:

• Install the OpenLilyPondFont Beethoven from here. Make sure that your LilyPond installation can find the font files.
• Install the Yorkten font on your system.
• Clone the PDQ git repository.

Note: The PDQ stylesheet does not use a standard paper format by default.

Usage

In the most basic case you just include the pdq.ily file in your score:

\include "path/to/pdq.ily"

The PDQ stylesheet can be customized through some options. Options need to be set before the pdq.ily file is loaded. For example to use the A4 paper size:

dinPaper = ##t
\include "path/to/pdq.ily"

For a description of available options see the documentation.

Headers

The PDQ stylesheet uses custom page layouts and headers. It also adds support for additional fields that can be used in headers. See the documentation for a list of available fields.

Layouts

The resulting PDQ can be further customized using Layouts. See the documentation for details.

Package Contents

Besides the PDQ layout this package also contains some utilities that might be useful when working with bigger projects. See the documentation for details.

pdq's Issues

Calculate staccassimo direction automatically.

In elements.ily there are two functions for repeating stacatissimo marks: staccsUpOn and staccsDownOn. It may be possible to determine the direction of a staccatissimo mark automatically (which would be preferred).

Add support for non-commercial font

Currently PDQ uses the Yorkten font, which is neither open source nor free. The stylesheet should add support for at least one similar font that is available for free.

Improve Font Management

Currently the different fonts are defined all over the place. There should be one file that defines the different fonts. This also makes it possible to provide an easy way to override some fonts.

Customization Support

Currently the PDQ theme can be customized via some flags that have to be set before importing pdq.ily. It would be better to unify and extend the customization options to include the following:

• Easy customization syntax
• Customization of font families and sizes

Evaluate Bravura Font

The Bravura font is likely an improvement over the current Beethoven font. However it requires SMuFL support.