Re: Lilypond source code indenter and formatter

[Hilary Snaden]

On 2012-06-07 01:20, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:44:00AM +0100, Colin Hall wrote:
> > Is anyone on the list aware of a tool that takes a valid Lilypond
> > score as input and produces as output the same .ly file but with the
> > formatting and layout standardized?
>
> Yes and no.  Various editors can do this.
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=777
>
> Frescobaldi has a script to do it (see the issue), but it's not
> clear if it can be run independently or not.  As implied by that
> issue and
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1432
> , it would be great if we had such a script, and I'd hope to ship
> it as part of lilypond.  And, of course, run it on all our files
> in git and all the docs.

The elisp function and optional shell script here

http://www.cslab.pepperdine.edu/warford/BatchIndentationEmacs.html

could easily be modified to make emacs with the LilyPond mode do the 
indenting. (Having said this, the emacs mode which ships with LilyPond 
2.14.2 gets indenting wrong after lines containing manual beaming.)

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Hilary Snaden