Greetings,
Through my work I need to cross reference musical works and songs in a
variety of languages: english, spanish, french, german, italian, etc.
The future may include non-roman languages...
Ideally, I would like to use an editor to prepare a song, including
lyrics in whichever language is appropriate, and have the ability to
play back a MIDI file, render the score notation in a web browser, etc.
Lillypond sounds close to this already, but the catch is that I would
like to build an arbitrary library of songs and be able to index and
cross-reference such files multi-lingually.
Assuming I have access to multilingual cross-reference tools, my
question is this (finally :-) : Is LillyPad's file structure built in
such a way that the lyrics, and only the lyrics, can be accessed,
indexed, sucked out of the rest of the information and processed
separately, etc?
I guess a better way to ask is this: Without losing all the notational
and MIDI features of LillyPad, can I index, extract, manipulate annd
replace the lyrics as though I had a "lyric-object" abstracted from the
other (linked, time-stamped, MIDI, typesetting, etc.) data?
Thanks for your time and thanks for your work on electronic musical
representation! ==Don
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