From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21590 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: music typesetting for ConTeXt Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:08:06 +0200 Message-ID: <42E562C6.4000107@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122329328 28299 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 22:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 26 00:08:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxB6q-0002Wk-Ar for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9F5127E2; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08825-02-3; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D3F127EA; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E462D127EA for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08825-02-2 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5156127E2 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6PM7QVG008586 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5E27324C70; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:22:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF0824C6B for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:22:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/991/Mon Jul 25 10:55:11 2005 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21590 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21590 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi there! > > Here is another suggestion for something that I'd like to do with > ConTeXt but can't hack myself: > > There's a nice music typesetting program called GNU LilyPond > (www.lilypond.org); in opposite to some years before it now engraves > really beautiful music sheets. (MusiXTeX seems to be no alternative, > it seems to be stuck with bitmap fonts and other uglities.) > > LilyPond has also a nice integration with LaTeX to typeset songbooks, > educational material etc. > Have a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out- > www/lilypond/LilyPond_002dbook.html > > I'd like to see (and use) a similar integration with ConTeXt - I > guess it's similar to MetaPost integration: > - support for inline code, i.e. \startLilyPond (LilyPond code) > \stopLilyPond or \LilyPond{short code sample} > - support for complete files (there's \lilypondfile in the LaTeX > variant, like \import) > > For LaTeX the integration runs via a preprocessor (lilypond-book) > that typesets the LilyPond parts and replaces them with graphics (as > fas as I understand). I guess if one could use similar techniques > like for the MetaPost integration, the LP integration in ConTeXt > could be even tighter (and more comfortable) than for LaTeX. > > As far as I understand, LilyPond natively writes PostScript code and > (usually) calls GhostScript to make a PDF. (Before it produced DVI, > but they dropped it.) > > Does this sound like an interesting job for someone? I'd even offer a > small bounty to get it done. actually the code for that kind of trickery is already presen tfor soem time, see m-pstric for an example; now, what we probably need is a small extension to page-app, i.e. the command you want to execute; can you give an example of a lilipond call? if you're lucky, then the patch needed is a brain dead few liner; the bounty you have to pay is ... writing a yourway document -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------