Re: MIDI track names

[Heikki Tauriainen]

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 22:54 +0600, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 2015-08-04 um 16:03 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Heikki Tauriainen <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > > > In that case, I suggest to default the name to header’s 
> > > > > „title“
> > > > > setting.  What do you think?
> > > > 
> > > > Could work.  Haven't looked into MIDI a lot though.
> > > 
> > > Using properties from the \header block (which sounds in 
> > > principle
> > > like a nice idea) is probably made more complicated by the fact 
> > > that
> > > the title metadata in a \header block can be arbitrary LilyPond
> > > markup, and not necessarily a plain string that could be passed
> > > through directly to the MIDI output file (and still get 
> > > "acceptable"
> > > output).
> > 
> > Markup stripping should be a solved problem since we prepare PDF
> > metadata in the same manner.

Indeed.  Thanks for the hint, David!

> Then pretty please implement it!

I've submitted a patch for review at <
https://codereview.appspot.com/256230045/>.

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Heikki Tauriainen