Am 27.04.2015 um 12:46 schrieb Kevin Barry:
So the first question is: how much of lilypond's goals and design
are based on TeX/LaTeX?
This is just my understanding, but I believe LilyPond is intended to
be a music-engraving equivalent of LaTeX. IIRC it actually began life
as a LaTeX package (MusicTeX? or was it another one?).
I'm not sure about the package thing (althought I doubt it) but
initially LilyPond's actual grob placement was done by TeX. So I'd say
initially LilyPond was like a LaTeX layer around TeX.
Along these lines comes a series of other questions:
Is "what you see is what you mean" input is the goal?
Yes I think so. I think the goal is to produce as close to optimal
printed output as possible with as little manual editing as possible.
I think separating content and presentation is also a goal.
I think this isn't really correct. WYSIWYM is used for tools like LyX
that give you a rough approximation of the final output so you can see
"what you mean". This is really not what LilyPond is about. I think
Denemo is offering just that, a preliminary visual representation while
you enter the music and that you can at any time make "perfect" by
calling LilyPond upon the input file.
Urs
Is there the same TeX=detailed typesetting (engraving),
LaTeX=hides users
from the details of those details (mostly) concept for Lilypond?
[I believe that this is one way to roughly characterize the
difference]
Not really. I think LilyPond contains a little of both, but is more
like LaTeX than plain TeX.
Just my two cents,
Kevin
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