Re: 3.0?

[Paul Morris]

Carl Peterson wrote
> Retyping by far. I pretty much write exclusively a cappella SATB, and I
> have developed a very specific template/workflow for the part combining
> and
> layout. I've tried a few different ways of getting the music from these
> formats into LP, and in each case, I found myself spending longer in
> cleaning up the resulting LilyPond code than if I had just transcribed it
> manually from the other program.

Hmmm, I'm curious what kind of cleanup is needed?  Is it the part combining
of SATB that's the problem, with the musicXML having the music represented
as harmonies / chords, and needing to isolate the different parts? ...or
something else?  Seems like getting just the notes (not layout) out of an
imported musicXML file should be an easy and straightforward thing, but I
guess not?


> That is why I suggested an IDE feature
> that would allow for creating a variable, and then providing a basic
> visual
> note-entry tool that can handle single or chorded notes (whether it allows
> polyphonic music may be a more challenging question), then return minimal
> code (just the notes).

This makes me wonder if Schikker's List could work for this, either as a
separate tool or possibly integrated into Frescobaldi?  (It's written in
Scheme whereas Frescobaldi is in Python, so that may be an obstacle?)  It
seems that if, as Urs is suggesting here, Frescobaldi moves towards more
graphical features then we're headed for some duplication of effort between
it and Schikker's List.

Just this week I came across LilyComp (http://lilycomp.sourceforge.net/)
which I haven't tried, and is probably too simple to be much help.  But if
it or something like it was integrated into Frescobaldi with the new
auto-compile feature, perhaps just rendering a limited number of notes at a
time in a separate window, that might start to be interesting.  (It's
written in python and is licensed under the GPL.)

-Paul



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