Re: Other programming languages & LilyPond

[Curt]

On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:11 PM, PMA <address@hidden> wrote:

> Urs Liska wrote:
>> Answer him that
>> ...
>> As LP input files are plain you can use _any_ programming
>> language to modify ... or even generate LilyPond input files.
> 
> This is a nod to Urs's word "_any_".  All my scores are made via LP.
> But each LP input file is made by a program I've written either in J
> (descendant superset of APL) or in good old BASH -- roughly as
> far apart as programming languages get.
> 

Ha - I'd love to hear more about this.  What kind of work are you doing
that involves using J in this manner?

I've written perl scripts that generate lilypond snippets to include in 
Anki decks for self-study of jazz theory.  There's all kinds of crazy
programming people can do with Lilypond.

Curt