Re: converting music stream back to ly code

[Janek Warchoł]

David, Jan-Peter,

2013/11/15 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> a quick question: given some lilypond code
>>
>> { c2 d e f }
>
> in what form?  Text?  Music expression?

I meant the textual form.

>> is it/would it be possible to get its music stream representation,
>> manipulate that music stream and convert it back to lilypond code?
>
> What do you call "its music stream representation"?  LilyPond does not
> have something like a music stream.  It has music expressions, and it
> can iterate them resulting in stream events in a certain order (and
> there is some event recorder for the part combiner and music quotes that
> can save those events).

ok, i got confused by Erik Sandberg's thesis as i don't know Lily
internals in this area.  Sorry about that.

Thanks for the information; it seems that it's not so easy to do what
i was thinking of.  So, nevermind.

best,
Janek