Hi all,
I have finally managed to check out Jacques Peron's lyluatex package
(https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex), and I got my first pull request
merged. I'm totally thrilled about this tool and the possibilities for
authoring music documents. Essentially it's lilypond-book without the
hassle of having to use a preprocessor (and deal with cluttered document
directory or path issues. (Of course it's far from complete, but one
definitely can see the potential). Now I can finally maintain the scores
to be used in text documents as LilyPond code (in the .tex file or in
separate include files) and don't have to worry about keeping them
up-to-date or updating all examples when something in the layout of the
text document changes! Even more spectacular will it be when all that
works smoothly with Pandoc - allowing to author documents in Markdown
and still have immediate access to LaTeX and LilyPond for automatic
typesetting.
My first contribution was allowing scores to be aligned to the paragraph
so that the *staff lines* match the paragraph while margin stuff like
braces or instrument names protrude into the left margin. It's exciting
to see that at work automatically - and think back at the days when I
had to live with inconsistently scaled score examples or tedious
trial&error formatting.
However, this first success implies the need for further discussion in
order to continue development. For this I have prepared a PDF that
demonstrated the feature and discusses the current question. This is
uploaded as part of the issue https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex/issues/36.
There are questions specific to the use of a LaTeX package but also
general typographic ones, so everyone on this list could have valuable
opinions. I would be happy about feedback, but as I will ask other
communities as well it would be good to concentrate discussion to the
Github tracker as much as possible.
Best
Urs
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