Re: glossary.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Dave Pawson writes:

> XML was designed to be readable by both.

Bet it was designed by a computer, then ;-)

>>music printing is a dounting task.
>
> Try music braille. Now that *is* daunting:-)

Thanks, we'll leave that to brilliant hackers like you.

>>     http://www.nongnu.org/xml2ly/
>
> Great. Then the XXX to lilypond will be just as easy.

Except that you lose anything in XXX that cannot be expressed in xml.

> Braille producers .... or at least us, accept that there
> is likely to be media specific 'tweaking'. I guess music
> will be just the same.

Yes.  The specific tweaking that can be done in the .ly file and
possibly some other music content will be missing from the xml.

> Our goal is generating all required media from the same source.

Good luck.

>>     lilypond-book music-glossary.tely
>
> This provides valid \tex?

Yes, or html, or latex.

> <myView>I wrote a book on XSL-FO, which is a print formatter spec
> from w3c. Some people call xsl-fo a 'final form', i.e. its not meant
> to go 'more general', than that. I'd put lilypond, musixTex into the
> same category, a typesetting, document bound format, rather than an
> interchange format. On that basis lilypond would be a target rather
> than a source?</myView>

Yes, on that basis it would, but if the lilypond source contains more
information than the *xml you'll have a hard time generating it.  FYI,
musixtex is mostly typesetting commands whereas lilypond needs very
typesetting directives, you can hardly compare those.

> So... lp-book expects those embedded commands, the remaining html
> (any specific version?) is passed through?

Yes.

> I can't say I'm keen on <a href=".ly file"><img src="some.png"
> alt="empty" /> </a> form, since it screws normal image access,
> but its a minor niggle.

Yes, that could be an option.

> I was enquiring about MusicTex and Lilypond, is are they
> derived from the same base?

No.

>>That's not your fault, it has to grow on you.  If you're not a
>>musician or typeseting expert you wouldn't notice.
> Maybe. My colleagues will / would. I work with a group of
> music+braille 'experts'. (All relative)

Maybe.  But it would not hurt to let them read our essay.

Jan.

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