On Wednesday, 25 March 1998, Joel Hunsberger writes:
> Greetings to all on the list!
>
> I have a dream... I am playing yet another something on my
> electronic keyboard. This is being "recorded" as a midi file
> on my PC...
> 1) What is the current status of MIDI to MusiXTex tools?
>
> 2) Has anyone considered writing a simple (nothing is simple, but
> many things are simpler than the alternatives) tool to translate
> MIDI files to M-Tex, particularly helpful for those who want to add
> song words....??
Well, there is a midi to mudela converter that comes with LilyPond.
After developing a Musi*TeX preprocessor (mpp) to make editing a bit
more convenient, we found that Musi*TeX and *flex must make typesetting
decisions that not predictable, or very hard to influence (line/page
breaking, exact placement of beams, slurs, other symbols).
The only way to get full controll is make all typsetting decisions
in one program; so we started developing LilyPond. It uses a friendly
ascii script language as input language.
> Wake me up with good news...
There are still some rough edges on the converter (so you're invited
to come and hack along) but it basically works. I'm pretty sure,
though, that if you learn to type with ten fingers, you'll spend a lot
less time entering a piece of music (in an easy language) than it'll
take you playing and correcting.
Greetings,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LilyPond - The GNU music typesetter
http://www.digicash.com/~jan | http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond
