Using Lilypond in OpenOffice.org using OOoLatex

[Samuel Hartmann]

Hi,

Today, when browsing through the OpenOffice.org Forum, I discovered by 
chance the tool OOoLatex. It allows to use Latex from within 
OpenOffice.org. One just has to enter an expression for a mathematical 
equation in a dialog box and click the "Latex" button. The equation then 
appears renderd as a high resolution image embedded in OpenOffice.org. 
The source code of the equation is also stored in the image object. The 
equation can be altered just by selecting the image object and calling 
the OOoLaTeX dialog box again.

The website of the tool is:
http://www.fyma.ucl.ac.be/wiki/~piroux/OOo+macro

OOoLatex consists of OOoMacros and a bash script. Since the source code 
is open, it should not be very difficult to get OOoLatex also working 
with lilypond code. This would allow people who want to write a text 
book that includes some lines of music to do it in OpenOffice.org 
instead of writing the complete book in LaTeX.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do the necessary adjustments, 
nor do I really have a need to include lines of music into 
OpenOffice.org. But I'm sure there are many people who would very much 
like to work with lilypond and OpenOffice.org. So I posted the idea here 
in the hope it might be useful for somebody who is willing to spend some 
time on this task.


Cheers,

Samuel