Re: Jianpu music notation question

[Menu Jacques]

Hello David,

Thanks for the information, I’ll look into the NoteNames context.

A nice day!

JM

> Le 21 août 2017 à 08:22, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Menu Jacques <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> As someone mentioned on this list some time ago, Silas S. Brown has written
>> jianpu-ly, described at 
>> http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/mwrhome/jianpu-ly.html, that
>> produces LilyPond code from a custom text description of the score.
>> 
>> This leads to code such as:
>> 
>> #(define (note-one grob grob-origin context)
>>  (if (grob::has-interface grob 'note-head-interface)
>>    (begin
>>      (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'stencil
>>        (grob-interpret-markup grob
>>          (make-lower-markup 0.5 (make-bold-markup "1")))))))
>> 
>> \applyOutput #'Voice #note-one
>> c''4[^. ~ 
>> 
>> with one specific function (note-one here) per note in the scale.
> 
> Surprisingly awful.
> 
>> Would a note engraver producing numbers instead of glyphs be a way
>> worth going for obtaining the same while keeping the regular syntax,
>> i.e. without any function such as 'note-one’ above being needed?
> 
> Sounds like the way to go.  Basically to be used as a part of a Jianpu
> context akin to the NoteNames context.
> 
>> A by-product of this approach might be the generation of ABC music
>> notation, see http://abcnotation.com, with LilyPond btw.
> 
> I don't think this would make a lot of sense since there is no point in
> getting a printed ABC score rather than a file of ABC input.  So you
> would want a completely different output definition from \layout.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
> 
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