Re: [O] org-babel, lilypond, tables

[James Harkins]

Steven Arntson steven at stevenarntson.com writes:

 I'm wondering if someone could tell me if this idea is impossible. I'm
 trying to find a way to leverage org-tables in a document containing
 lilypond markup for a piano part such that both staves occupy the same
 line, visually (instead of the lefthand notes occupying the top of the
 doc and the righthand notes occupying the bottom). Right now I'm
 accomplishing this with a vertical split in the buffer, which works, but
 is clunky.

I'm quite sure you'll have to write custom emacs-lisp for this.

I'd suggest not using tables, though. It looks fine when
you have only notes, but as soon as you need an override
(and, in piano music, you *will*, sooner or later), the table
will become very wide and you'll lose the advantage
of seeing both columns at once.

I'd probably use plain lists, one item per staff. You could
even nest lists for passages of temporary polyphony:

** Bar 1
   - ... right hand notes...
   - Poly
     - ... left hand voice 1 notes...
     - ... left hand voice 2 notes...

It'll take some extra lisp code to parse all this, but it
could work. I have a sneaky feeling, though, that more
complex notation requirements may become
inconvenient.

hjh

Re: [O] org-babel, lilypond, tables

[Grant Rettke]

Perhaps you are doing cutting edge stuff that no one has even
considered before, which is great.
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Steven Arntson
ste...@stevenarntson.com wrote:
 I'm wondering if someone could tell me if this idea is impossible. I'm
 trying to find a way to leverage org-tables in a document containing
 lilypond markup for a piano part such that both staves occupy the same
 line, visually (instead of the lefthand notes occupying the top of the
 doc and the righthand notes occupying the bottom). Right now I'm
 accomplishing this with a vertical split in the buffer, which works, but
 is clunky. I'd love to do something like:

 left hand | right hand  | measure
 --+-+--
 a16 b c d e f g a |  a8 b d f e4~  |  %m1
 c e gs4 a8 g|  e g c'4 g d b   |  %m2

 et cetera. This is easy enough to lay out in org mode, and it would look
 terrific, but I can't imagine how to accomplish it such that the
 lilypond markup would respond correctly to ly-tangle without bracketing
 every cell in #+BEGIN_SRC LILYPOND #END_SRC (and even then, I doubt what
 would happen.)

 Maybe the answer is You just have to get used to the way things are,
 which is fine--even that would at least get me thinking about other
 problems.

 Thank you!
 Steven Arntson