Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
Dear Eric, On 8 Jul 2011, at 02:38, Eric Schulte wrote: Thanks for sharing this, it looks great, short clear and to the point. Shall I add it to the contrib/ directory? If you think it is already at that point, that is certainly fine by me. Best, Torsten Best -- Eric Torsten Anders torsten.and...@beds.ac.uk writes: Dear Babel developers, Inspired by the newly available Lilypond, I hacked up a first version of language support for Fomus (http://fomus.sourceforge.net/). Briefly, Fomus is a music notation system that translates a relatively simple domain specific music language into multiple output formats, including Lilypond and MusicXML (the latter is an open format supported by many commercial music notation systems such as Finale and Sibelius). In a nutshell, Fomus can simplify the generation of complex scores, because it can add various score information automatically. Anyway, please find my first attempt of a Fomus integration attached. This works already fine for standard code blocks such as the following. Note that the result of this is a Lilypond file. #+begin_src fomus :file test1.ly time 0 dur 2 pitch 60; time 2 dur 1 pitch 62; time 3 dur 1 pitch 63; time 4 dur 4 pitch 65; #+end_src Of course, because this is a quick hack, various improvements can be made. For example, it might be a good idea to allow for something like :file test.pdf, where the resulting Lilypond call would see file.ly, but the automatically inserted link in the org buffer would be the resulting file.pdf. Comments are welcome. Best wishes, Torsten -- Dr Torsten Anders Course Leader, Music Technology University of Bedfordshire Park Square, Room A315 http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
Torsten Anders torsten.and...@beds.ac.uk writes: Dear Eric, On 8 Jul 2011, at 02:38, Eric Schulte wrote: Thanks for sharing this, it looks great, short clear and to the point. Shall I add it to the contrib/ directory? If you think it is already at that point, that is certainly fine by me. Great, I do prefer to fold new languages in early so that they can benefit from wider use and testing. This is now located in contrib/babel/langs/. Thanks for the contribution -- Eric Best, Torsten Best -- Eric Torsten Anders torsten.and...@beds.ac.uk writes: Dear Babel developers, Inspired by the newly available Lilypond, I hacked up a first version of language support for Fomus (http://fomus.sourceforge.net/). Briefly, Fomus is a music notation system that translates a relatively simple domain specific music language into multiple output formats, including Lilypond and MusicXML (the latter is an open format supported by many commercial music notation systems such as Finale and Sibelius). In a nutshell, Fomus can simplify the generation of complex scores, because it can add various score information automatically. Anyway, please find my first attempt of a Fomus integration attached. This works already fine for standard code blocks such as the following. Note that the result of this is a Lilypond file. #+begin_src fomus :file test1.ly time 0 dur 2 pitch 60; time 2 dur 1 pitch 62; time 3 dur 1 pitch 63; time 4 dur 4 pitch 65; #+end_src Of course, because this is a quick hack, various improvements can be made. For example, it might be a good idea to allow for something like :file test.pdf, where the resulting Lilypond call would see file.ly, but the automatically inserted link in the org buffer would be the resulting file.pdf. Comments are welcome. Best wishes, Torsten -- Dr Torsten Anders Course Leader, Music Technology University of Bedfordshire Park Square, Room A315 http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/ -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
Hi Eric, Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: I do prefer to fold new languages in early so that they can benefit from wider use and testing. This is now located in contrib/babel/langs/. Thanks. I slightly updated library-of-babel.org to list existing supported languages, either in core or in contrib/babel/langs/. -- Bastien
Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Eric, Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: I do prefer to fold new languages in early so that they can benefit from wider use and testing. This is now located in contrib/babel/langs/. Thanks. I slightly updated library-of-babel.org to list existing supported languages, either in core or in contrib/babel/langs/. Thanks for making this change. -- Eric -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
[O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
Dear Babel developers, Inspired by the newly available Lilypond, I hacked up a first version of language support for Fomus (http://fomus.sourceforge.net/). Briefly, Fomus is a music notation system that translates a relatively simple domain specific music language into multiple output formats, including Lilypond and MusicXML (the latter is an open format supported by many commercial music notation systems such as Finale and Sibelius). In a nutshell, Fomus can simplify the generation of complex scores, because it can add various score information automatically. Anyway, please find my first attempt of a Fomus integration attached. This works already fine for standard code blocks such as the following. Note that the result of this is a Lilypond file. #+begin_src fomus :file test1.ly time 0 dur 2 pitch 60; time 2 dur 1 pitch 62; time 3 dur 1 pitch 63; time 4 dur 4 pitch 65; #+end_src Of course, because this is a quick hack, various improvements can be made. For example, it might be a good idea to allow for something like :file test.pdf, where the resulting Lilypond call would see file.ly, but the automatically inserted link in the org buffer would be the resulting file.pdf. Comments are welcome. Best wishes, Torsten -- Dr Torsten Anders Course Leader, Music Technology University of Bedfordshire Park Square, Room A315 http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de ob-fomus.el Description: Binary data
Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
Hi Torsten, Thanks for sharing this, it looks great, short clear and to the point. Shall I add it to the contrib/ directory? Best -- Eric Torsten Anders torsten.and...@beds.ac.uk writes: Dear Babel developers, Inspired by the newly available Lilypond, I hacked up a first version of language support for Fomus (http://fomus.sourceforge.net/). Briefly, Fomus is a music notation system that translates a relatively simple domain specific music language into multiple output formats, including Lilypond and MusicXML (the latter is an open format supported by many commercial music notation systems such as Finale and Sibelius). In a nutshell, Fomus can simplify the generation of complex scores, because it can add various score information automatically. Anyway, please find my first attempt of a Fomus integration attached. This works already fine for standard code blocks such as the following. Note that the result of this is a Lilypond file. #+begin_src fomus :file test1.ly time 0 dur 2 pitch 60; time 2 dur 1 pitch 62; time 3 dur 1 pitch 63; time 4 dur 4 pitch 65; #+end_src Of course, because this is a quick hack, various improvements can be made. For example, it might be a good idea to allow for something like :file test.pdf, where the resulting Lilypond call would see file.ly, but the automatically inserted link in the org buffer would be the resulting file.pdf. Comments are welcome. Best wishes, Torsten -- Dr Torsten Anders Course Leader, Music Technology University of Bedfordshire Park Square, Room A315 http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
