Re: arbitrary TeX expressions in a score?

[Denis . Roegel]

> With the possible exception of the font commands for markup or
> things like the current date and time, I don't think that lilypond
> output should depend on the computer.

Doesn't it already depend on a LaTeX installation? Just a few days ago
I reinstalled my computer, and on Ubuntu, the lilypond package required
some TeX packages which I noticed, because I mistakenly forgot
to install texlive first, which I usually do.

However, I am not saying that lilypond should depend on TeX,
but if it could have some optional way to call TeX, that would be better.
Perhaps I am a typographical purist, but if I have some text font
in my document, I don't want to mix just any font for lyrics.
Another example is the following. In some of my scores,
I put boxed letters as annotations:

  \override TextScript #'stencil =
    #(make-stencil-boxer 0.1 0.3 ly:text-interface::print)

and then later c1_"a" or something like that.

In my text, I write "\fbox{a} is ...", but my \fbox{a} isn't spaced
exactly like the box produced by stencil. There are probably many examples
like this. I can live with them, but it could also be improved.

Denis Roegel