[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus
From: |
Eric Schulte |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:20:26 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Torsten Anders <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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/