Am Freitag 08 Februar 2013, 08:44:03 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> 
> > 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 :-)

Wow, 842 pages manual.
I don't what it is about, but it is impressive.

 Heinz


> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 

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