On Fri, Feb 08, 2013, Werner Lemberg wrote: > > > There is an old roff language for programming music notes. This is > > a troff preprocessor that translates into pic. [...] > > > > I do not understand why this preprocessor was not integrated. > > Have you ever seen the Lilypond program? > > http://www.lilypond.org > > Maybe this answers the question :-) > > > Foxley has created a database of 1200 folk tunes and more, but I did > > not find anything about the preprocessor source. > > Well... > > > Maybe someone should contact him. I think best would be someone > > from a British university. > > This sounds like a good idea. Instead of having a groff preprocessor > I suggest that someone is writing a music2lilypond script.
As a longtime lilypond user, I'm in inclined to agree with Werner's implication (I hope I'm not misreading!). Lilypond is so good there's not much point in using anything else. (Mind you, I have of late been seduced by the charms of a WYSIWYG score editor called Musescore.) -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
