Re:A couple of questions about Edition Engraver

[David Sumbler]

Thank you all for your responses to my original post, and for the
ensuing discussion which I am following with great interest.  I shall
not reply to each response individually, mainly because I have little
to offer that would be constructive: I made my original post because it
was my view as a complete "newbie" to Edition Engraver, and sometimes
comments from a naive user can be useful.

To pick out a few points:

On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 12:32 +0000, Urs Liska wrote:
> 
> 19. Februar 2018 12:00, "David Sumbler" <address@hidden> schrieb:
> 
> > \editionMod test {
> >   1 {
> >     0/4 Voice \(
> >     1/4 Lyrics #(make-music 'ExtenderEvent)
> >     2/8 Voice [
> >   }
> >   2 {
> >     0/4 {
> >       Score {
> >         \time 3/4
> >         \tempo "Allegro" 4=135
> >       } 
> >       Voice {
> >         \p
> >         \<
> >       }
> >     }
> >     1/4 Lyrics #(make-music 'HyphenEvent)
> >   } 
> > }
>
> I think it can't be made to work since it's quite un-
> LilyPond-y.

Perhaps not, looking at it from a functional point of view.  But
structurally (i.e. from the human editor's point of view) it is very
similar to something we are used to, such as:

\book {
  \score {
    \new StaffGroup <<
      \new GrandStaff <<
        \new Staff { \violinOne }
        \new Staff { \violinTwo }
      >>
      \new Staff { \cello }
    >>
    \layout {
    }
    \midi { }
  }
}

and I reckon that even I could knock some Scheme together which would
convert it back to the standard basic form where each line starts with
\editionMod.  But as a stand-alone program, which is all I could
manage, that would not be practical.

> What about something like (just a shot in the dark)
> 
> \edMods test \with {
>   a = \with {
>     m = 1
>     mods = {
>       \eMod 1/4 Lyrics #(make-music 'ExtenderEvent)
>       \eMod 0/4 Voice \(
>     }
>   }
>   b = \with {
>     m = 2
>     mods = {
>       \eMod Score \tempo "Allegro" 4=135
>       
> ...

That might be useful for an expert but, for me, it would not help in
finding my way around what might be quite a big file.

On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 15:34 +0100, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Urs already answered. I understand your concerns about the input
> and I 
> am always open for ideas to ease the input for the edition-engraver. 

Great!  My purpose in making the original suggestion was to suggest the
kind of thing that might be useful.

David