Re: "Parallel music view" - inspiration for LilyPond editors.

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mats Bengtsson
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/26/2012 12:48 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>>>
>>> What about editors like Frescobaldi having the ability to convert
>>> "regular lilypond" to "horizontal scroll" and back?  E.g. the code
>>> above would be displayed as (view using monospace font):
>>>
>>> <<
>>>    { a4 b  c  d  e  f  g  a  e    a   g  f  }
>>>
>>>    { e4 a  g  f  c2    e     d8 c f4  d2    }
>>> >>
>>
>> I may be stupid, but it's not obvious to me how this small example would
>> extend to a longer piece that doesn't fit on a single line in the editor.
>
> Disabling automatic line wrapping and using horizontal scrolling is the key :)
> Of course, it wouldn't probably make sense to *store* music in this format.

If you don't want to store it in this format, there is no point in
choosing a display form that locally resembles valid input.

To me it sounds more like what you'd want here is several windows into
the same file with synchronized cursor motion for things happening at
the same musical time.

-- 
David Kastrup