Re: Design suggestion -- was: Re: more stupid questions

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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address@hidden writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Die, 17. Jun 2003 11:47:31 +0200, schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> > This is way too complex. 
> 
> The only complsex thing would be the communicating protocol between the
> processes.

The "only" complex thing? Remember that one of the biggest headaches
in compiling and using lily is the interaction with TeX
font-management. Interacting with other parts of TeX will increase the
headaches proportionately.

>  To be a real solution this
> script has to implement a real parser of lilypond. The reason for it is,

No, it doesn't. You could use \apply to generate the X-extent stuff,
or. ..

> that we don't have \someWeirdText only in lyrics. All other text objects
> can (and will) have \someOtherWeirdText. The tex code would be
> the same as what I suggested. 

one could override the molecule-callback property to do LaTeX
processing for other objects too.

> And don't forget: My solution would make lilypond-book much more
> simple, because you don't have to parse the .tex-file any more. This job
> can do latex for you. It also can write out all the necessary parameters

And how would you implement the HTML and texi support?


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