Re: (OT) New User introduction

[J Martin Rushton]

(OT) Back in the '60s I had a blind piano teacher.  She was a regular
attender at the Methodist Church.  The Methodist Hymn Book of that
period had just under 1,000 hymns, some with alternate tunes.  Neatly
stacked in one of the pews were a pile of large format books (from
memory about A3 size).  The pile must have been at least 2' high.  They
were the complete hymn book with tunes in braille.

On 11/11/17 16:07, Karlin High wrote:
> On 11/10/2017 4:05 PM, Daniel Chavez wrote:
>> I am a totally blind musician and have been playing piano since I was
>> 3-years-old. I came across LilyPond in my efforts to find a free-ware
>> software that I can write out my music for sheep music purposes
> 
> We have an extended-family member who is blind from an early age due to
> an inherited retina disorder. I've seen some of what she can do with
> braille embossers, braille terminals and such, and I can see LilyPond's
> text-based input design being an advantage for use with those tools.
> 
> Now, I am curious about the sheet music format you use for working with
> LilyPond's OUTPUT. Is it something based on printed pages, as LilyPond
> is most commonly used? Or something texture-based like Music Braille?
> 
> I didn't know Music Braille existed until just now...
> http://braillebug.afb.org/music_braille.asp
> ...but apparently it originated in 1837 with Monsieur Louis himself.

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