Hi, Mario: Now that I understand better what you're after, I would encourage you to consider my comments anew. I believe the same scaling problem pertains for a tactual representation of scored music. If you can scale the thinner elemements more than the larger and thicker ones, you will stand a better chance of success, imho. The eye, in other words, is capable of much finer detail, as well as greater contrast, than the hand. PS: I agree with you about getting a better understanding of the media representations used by most musicians. My memories of that definitely help my understanding of things musical. Mario Lang writes: > Hi Janina. > > No, that doesnt help :-). Since I am not trying to actually read the result, > I just want one tactile example for getting a feel about how > visual music works. Again, I am not trying to read this with my eyes, > just trying to get a representation I can touch. It sounds strange maybe, > but experience taught me that it is very useful to have a grip on how > the sighted world actually works with things. > > Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > It's not exactly what you're asking about, but maybe related. > > > > I'm recalling my experience when I was still low-vision with printed > > scores. I was never able to get satisfactory magnification results. The > > problem at the time was a matter of scaling, imho. The note heads (and > > other elems, like the two bars indicating 16ths) were heavy and large > > relative to fairly thin stave lines and note stems. So, if I magnified > > enough to see the staves, the notes were heads were preposterously > > large. On the other hand, if I made the noteheads comfortable to see, I > > could not find the staff nor the note stems. > > > > So, my guess that magnification of score would require a rescaling where > > small elems receive more magnification than large, heavy ones. > > > > Not sure if this helps at all. > > > > Mario Lang writes: > >> Hi. > >> > >> To make a long story short, I recently gained the ability to make > >> normal print into a tactile thing very easily. Now, I'd really like > >> to have a short piece of music for getting an idea how this stuff > >> normally looks... Of course not for playing or anything serious, its more > >> a thing of interest. However, if I print out a straight A4 PostScript > >> file generated by LilyPond, the resulting information density is soo high > >> that I basically can not feel much difference between the individual notes, let > >> along figure out their exact position vertically. What I'd like to do > >> is to flip LilyPond output by 90 degree, and magnify it as much as possible, > >> so that one system goes all the way along the long axis of an A4 paper. > >> > >> I've choosen Musette from www.MutopiaProject.org as my example piece > >> since it normally fits on one A4 page, so I guess after my magnification > >> it should probably take up 3 or 4 pages? Also, I know that tune in and out, > >> so its surely a good way to getting a grasp of the system... > >> I've tried all sorts of things like editing the LilyPond .latex files > >> directly, switching to landscape mode and all that, but the result never really > >> worked as I expected. Digging through all the PostScript postprocessor > >> tools didn't help either. psresize can not flip, and psnup can not > >> magnify and so on and so on. > >> > >> PLEASE, if anyone got an idea how I could accomplish this and still keep > >> a fairly high resolution, please please let me know. > >> > >> P.S.: In case you're confused after reading this, I am blind, and tactile > >> print is the only way for me to access graphical content right now. > >> > >> -- > >> CYa, > >> Mario > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org > > > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > > -- > CYa, > Mario -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
