Am 2011-08-19 um 17:08 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
I don't understand what you're planning,
I am planning to add features so that you can say:
\startlilypondpreamble
global settings
\stoplilypondpreamble
Ah, that's great - at the moment I just import the same settings.ly
file into every score of a songbook.
But - can you even support different setups, say
\startlilypondpreamble
global settings for everything
\stoplilypondpreamble
\startlilypondpreamble[snippet]
global settings for snippets
\stoplilypondpreamble
\startlilypondpreamble[fullscore]
global settings for full scores
\stoplilypondpreamble
\startlilypond[setup=fullscore]
the score
\stoplilypond
etc.
The other thing is to be able to change linespace, papersize,
offset, etc using parameters, so that one can say:
\startlilypond[linespace=...]
...
\stoplilypond
This will require some lua side processing.
You mean, translate ConTeXt-style settings to LilyPond settings, like
we did with the old module?
That wouldn’t make much sense. LilyPond just has too much settings.
And most of them you can set in different ways. To fully support this,
you’d need a complete LilyPond parser including Scheme. And a small
set of settings is never the right set for everyone.
Ok, there are a few settings that we could translate, e.g. set
ConTeXt’s main fonts also for LilyPond.
We don’t need LilyPond's layout settings, as long as we go the
\externalfigure path.
I don’t know a solution for line breaking of scores - if you’d set
LilyPond’s page size to ConTeXt’s remaining space, it would stay the
same for the second page. Perhaps we can get single lines (systems)
and let ConTeXt to the page breaking. I’ll look into that.
But I don’t know how we can make it "right" WRT LilyPond snippets -
I’d want to align a note systems’s base line with ConTeXt’s text
baseline, but the height and clipping of a snippet depends on the
visible elements. Without some picture analysis (or runtime data from
LilyPond, that doesn’t exist AFAIK) you need to adjust your snippets
manually.
Do you know how lilypond numbers its output files. In some cases I
get filename-1.pdf sometimes not. Can I force it to always give
filename-1.pdf or always give filename.pdf
LilyPond adds a number to EPS, if there’s more that one page.
But in my songbook setup, I always get a filename-temp-lilypond-##.eps
plus an identical filename-temp-lilypond-##-1.eps
When you order more than one \midi{} in several \score blocks, the
first MIDI file is unnumbered, the second gets number 1 etc.; didn’t
try with different \layout blocks yet.
Seems like I must do some tests with multipage scores.
Which OSes do you have access to?
Normally I work on OSX Intel 10.5.8; I've access to Windows 7/64 and
Ubuntu/Debian machines.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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