Hi all,
I registered (way too late) to this list because I'll do an announcement
in a few days. But actually I realized that I should have registered
long time ago, and I'll take the opportunity to introduce myself.
I'm a professional pianist and musicologist, and an enthusiastic music
engraver using LilyPond for quite some time.
Nearly two years ago, during the preparation of a large music edition, I
decided to finally dive into LaTeX and version control (actually I can't
recall which was the consequence of the other), and I've never regretted
this step!
In the meantime I'm using LaTeX nearly exclusively (if not for enforced
'compatibility' with family or others) and promote its use wherever I
can. For example on our LilyPond blog: http://lilypondblog.org/tag/latex/.
Two projects may be of interest on this list:
1) lilyglyphs
If you haven't noticed it: I have uploaded this package to CTAN, and it
is (at least, to my knowledge) part of TeXLive 2013 in the meantime
(also available in texlive-music in Debian sid). This package makes it
possible to include _any_ notational construct that LilyPond can produce
like characters in continuous text of LaTeX documents. I'd be very happy
about any users and/or contributors for several aspects:
- increasing the coverage with predefined commands
- making it accessible from plain latex (currently it relies on xelatex
or lualatex)
- supporting the new SMuFL standard
- some internal improvements and enhancements
Project/Development homepage is https://github.com/openlilylib/lilyglyphs
a more detailed announcement with example document can be found on
http://lilypondblog.org/2013/09/using-musical-symbols-in-text-documents/
Minimal example to try out if you have it already installed:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lilyglyphs}
\begin{document}
The \crescHairpin{} stops at the \lilyDynamics{pp} on the second \quaver.
\end{document}
2) musicexamples
This is a package I haven't uploaded because it's not useful enough yet.
But I hope it will become a very good way to use and manage music in
LaTeX documents.
Currently it supports including floating and non-floating music examples
from pre-built image files (with a stress on LilyPond-created ones). The
most interesting point so far is the support for full-page and
multi-page score examples with caption support and support for scores
explicitly starting on odd or even pages (i.e. "insert a multipage
score, starting at the next odd page").
I'd be happy about people sharing interest in that approach and help me
get it further to become a really useful package.
Steps to be done:
- some internal improvements and fixes
(e.g. handling of musicexamples that are entered before a previous
one is actually printed)
- improving/extending the tools that help to create/update suitable
files with LilyPond.
- managing LilyPond code directly in the LaTeX document
The last one is the most important thing, but also the biggest
challenge. What I would like to achieve is about the same functionality
as lilypond-book does, but from inside the LaTeX compilation, without a
script preprocessing the input file. I think this should be possible
using Lua (although this functionality would be restricted to lualatex
then). Some main advantages I see:
- no need to first process the compilable .tex file
-> I can immediately compile the document I'm writing
-> No hassles with either a cluttered working dir or path issues when
using a separate output directory
- absolutely reliable access to the actual line or text width of the
LaTeX document
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Thanks for your patience and maybe even interest.
Best regards
Urs Liska
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