Fwd: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility

2011-03-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Begin forwarded message: From: 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng hhpmu...@163.com Date: March 24, 2011 8:36:47 AM EDT To: m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com Subject: Re:Re: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility Ah, if it's possible, just do a musicxml backend. Because braille music

Re: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility

2011-03-24 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/24/11 7:11 AM, m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com wrote: I got this response from Haipeng (who currently has to rely on LilyPond's playback to catch errors) and I get the sense that the best option would be creating a primitive form of lily - musicxml conversion. Even if this

Re: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility

2011-03-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:11 AM, m...@apollinemike.com m...@apollinemike.com wrote: Hey all, One of my goals for 2011 is to improve LilyPond's accessibility for the blind. I got this response from Haipeng (who currently has to rely on LilyPond's playback to catch errors) and I get the sense

Re: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility

2011-03-24 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2011, 15:07:54 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: I think it would be awesome to have MusicXML output, but I am not sure about the technical constraints. IIRC, MusicXML has a complicated way of mixing layout and abstract music information, that would make it difficult to

Re: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility

2011-03-24 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2011, 15:07:54 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: I think it would be awesome to have MusicXML output, but I am not sure about the technical constraints. IIRC, MusicXML has a complicated way of mixing layout and abstract