Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

[Johan Vromans]

Jacques Menu <address@hidden> writes:

> After struggling with irregular bars, I've been working on a Python3 tool that
> transforms a spec such as:
> [...]
> into a ready-to-compile Lilypond source file.

Very interesting. It reminds me of something I considered a while ago:
a kind of meta-staff where the structure of the score is described
(time/tempo, repeats, special \bar's, and so on). These would then apply
to all the staffs automatically.

The rationale is that while a LilyPond score consists of horizontal
staffs, it is in fact structured vertically and sometimes it has
advantages to treat it as such. For example, using pseudo-LP:

  structure = {
      A1
      \repeat volta 2 {
         A2
      }
      \alternative{
         A21
         A22
      }
      A3
      \bar "||"
      A4
      \bar ":|"
      A5
  }
  A1 = { ... }
  B1 = { ... }
  C1 = { ... }
  ... and so on ...
  voiceA = { \A1 \A2 \A21 \A22 \A3 \A4 \A5 }
  voiceB = { \B1 \B2 \B21 \B22 \B3 \B4 \B5 }
  voiceC = { \C1 \C2 \C21 \C22 \C3 \C4 \C5 }

Much can be achieved with macro's, I know.

Can you give me a url for your tool?

Thanks,

-- Johan