Re: Finding note positions and midi values in lilypond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Mark Burton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> Way back in 2005 you hinted that extracting e.g. midi note values and their 
> corresponding position on e.g. a PDF page would be possible….
> Did you ever build the examples you talked about? - Or do you have some hints 
> and tips where I could look?
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00273.html
>
> I'm mucking about with trying to play (via midi) and highlight notes at the 
> same time… would be nice if it worked :-))

No, never got to that.  Without thinking, I'd say it would be the
quickest to render the notes with a color triple that encodes the
information you want, converting to PNG and analyzing the image.

The list may have other ideas.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen