Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> writes: > 2012/10/3 Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com>: >> Imagine a piece for medium-sized orchestra (10 instruments, 200 >> measures). In LilyPond code, you have to write the instruments >> separately from each other - the connection between them is not >> visible. It is difficult to visualise how they blend by looking at >> the source code (i'd say it's like trying to visualise a polygon when >> all you have is a matrix with coordinates of its vertices). Anyone >> who can effortlessly do this has my respect, but for me it's very >> uncomfortable, and i'm sure many people feel the same. >> That's why i'd like to have my code formatted in a way that is >> visually similar to the actual score. As i've explained earlier, i >> think it's not feasible to do such formatting by hand - that's why i >> believe it's something that Lily editors could do. And they could >> allow to switch between "regular" and "horizontal" formatting. > > Firstly, let me say (if it has not been said before) that this is > asking for editor features, not lilypond features. Human-readable > plaintext code is one-dimensional by nature, whereas music notation is > bi-dimensional, so what you need is a bi-dimensional editor if you > want to match the multi-part paralellism of the music and the lilypond > code that represents it. > > I think that what you want does actually exist, and it is called a > spreadsheet. They are commonly used for (or primarily intended for) > numbers and formulae laid out in rows and columns, although people do > use them for pretty everything from "I lost my dog" ads to restaurant > menus.
I actually have a hard time deciding whether this is intended as a joke or not, but then the amount of things spreadsheets are misused for is staggering. I agree that a "parallel view" where you basically click on several music sources is likely more feasible than actually having a separate view for each with synchronization when we are talking about a large number of voices. In any case, I would agree with Janek that this is likely better done with a specialized LilyPond editor rather than a general-purpose spreadsheet. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user