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Re: [Groff] Foxley roff music notes of 1987
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Foxley roff music notes of 1987 |
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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:44:03 +0100 (CET) |
> There is an old roff language for programming music notes. This is
> a troff preprocessor that translates into pic. [...]
>
> I do not understand why this preprocessor was not integrated.
Have you ever seen the Lilypond program?
http://www.lilypond.org
Maybe this answers the question :-)
> Foxley has created a database of 1200 folk tunes and more, but I did
> not find anything about the preprocessor source.
Well...
> Maybe someone should contact him. I think best would be someone
> from a British university.
This sounds like a good idea. Instead of having a groff preprocessor
I suggest that someone is writing a music2lilypond script.
Werner