On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:22:55 -0500
Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that this could simplify the syntax by creating a standard
> skeleton for .ly files going from most global to most specific:
>
> \version information
>
> \paper information
>
> \form information (number of bars, repeat locations, bars-per-line,
> rehearsal mark locations, number of staves, instruments/voices,
> \clef, \key, \time, etc.)
>
> \music information (could be \notes (including percussion),
> \chordnames or \lyrics)
>
> I think that the \score block could possibly be eliminated if the
> required information was specified in the other blocks; much of that
> information would be under \form (e.g., how many staves and what
> information is assigned to those staves). There could be one method
> for engraving chord names and lyrics instead of multiple methods.
> But it may be that there would be no practical way to separate form
> information into its own block separate from note/chord information.
This sounds at least a little like the way I usually organize my
scores, though the \score block becomes necessary at least for deciding
*how* to put all of the formal and musical elements together:
%%% code snippet begins
\version "2.[whatever]"
\paper {}
Form = {
% key, time, and form elements, usually referenced in an
% included file
}
Notes = {
% note information, also usually referenced in an include file
}
\score {
\new Staff <<
% put it all together!
\Form
\Notes
>>
\layout {}
%\midi {}
}
%%% code snippet ends
So while there may be more graceful ways to ask for four-bar lines
(something in layout, perhaps, like \four-bar-lines = ##t? but that
brings up its own problems), it's already pretty easy separate the
formal and musical elements -- and in ways that are suggested and
supported in the official documentation.
--
Josiah Boothby
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http://josiahboothby.org
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