Re: Macro pre-processing?

[Eduardo Vieira]

Sorry for prolonging this thread... but have you taken a look at David 
Raleigh Arnold's "Lilypond Tools"? They are 
some interesting Python scripts for handling "\include" among other things. 
I forgot the URL, so use Google, please. 

Eduardo Vieira 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden> 
To: <address@hidden> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:06 PM 
Subject: Re: Macro pre-processing? 


> 
> Thanks, being a musician I was unaware of such a program.  I'll go buy the 
m4 
> Windows XP version after I look at a demo version. 
> 
> I need to generate chord fret markup of each chord form in all enharmonic 
> spellings at every neck position, as a \include library of diagrams.  This 
> is 200-300 lines of markup per chord, considering that I will be doing 
maybe 
> 1000 or so chord forms, thats a big LP file of 200,000 lines or so and 
over 
> 26,000 variable names (1000 chords times 26 enharmonic root name spellings 
> at all positions)!  Each markup is assigned to a different variable, then 
I 
> just do a \include of this chord library file to have all my chord forms 
> available when doing arrangements.  I have a naming standard where the 
> variable names dont get duplicated, I just need a macro processor to 
> generate each diagram at all fret positions and with all the possible 
> enharmonic root names.  Having this library will same future time not 
having 
> to re-create the diagrams from scratch in each song.