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[Lilypond-auto] Issue 2506 in lilypond: Office-type application compatib
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[Lilypond-auto] Issue 2506 in lilypond: Office-type application compatibility for Lilypond-book |
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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:51:02 +0000 |
Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Enhancement
New issue 2506 by address@hidden: Office-type application compatibility for
Lilypond-book
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2506
About a year ago, I created a magazin article using lilypond-book with a
LaTeX format. For better or worse, I received the usual "can we have this
in .DOC format as well" which turned out totally disastrous. The LaTeX
texts could be put through the latex2rtf ringer and thus, more or less
imported into OpenOffice as raw text.
It turned out, however, that _none_ of the formats LilyPond can produce
were suitable to be imported into OpenOffice without getting rasterized
into a fixed resolution, thus being quite unfit for prepress purposes. The
closest was perhaps SVG (mangled by OpenOffice's import which only supports
rather basic forms). Both PDF and EPS are imported as _bitmaps_ into
OpenOffice.
There is an OooLilyPond extension <URL:http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/>
which also does not meet the basic criterion of importing _vector_ outlines
rather than bitmaps at a fixed resolution.
It turned out I had to punt, and send the magazine the reexported .DOC from
the raw text import, and all figures produced by LilyPond separately as SVG
with a "good luck getting those into your publishing system" note.
Embarrassing.
Which they apparently succeeded in since the mosaic-style table-of-contents
for the issue had a large blowup from a graphic containing smooth circles.
But this does not do. We really need a reasonably working and preferably
documented way of getting a Lilypond-book document (whatever the source
typesetting format may have to be) into OpenOffice/Libreoffice with vector
graphics.
"Oh, you need a LaTeX-based workflow to work with musicology documents in
full quality" is a non-starter for getting one's feet into publishing more
than naked music sheets without creating a totally different workflow not
just for music, but all the text in between as well.
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