indent-ly

[Martin Tarenskeen]

Hi,

I have tried to write a tool in Python to (re-)indent lilypond source 
files. Something like indent ( for C/C++ ) or tidy ( for HTML ) but now 
with Lilypond in mind.

The tool can handle multiple inputfiles, and there is a commandline option 
that lets you specify how much spacecharacters to use for indentation, 
or to use TAB characters for that (= default behaviour).

First I tried to make it do a complete re-formatting of the input files 
(like indent and tidy can), changing newlines and empty lines and all 
that. But I abandoned that idea, to give the user more freedom to use and 
keep his/her own personal lilypond coding style, and to make things easier 
for me :-)

I think it does a nice job, but comments are welcome.
You get it here:

        http://www.home.zonnet.nl/m.tarenskeen/tmp/indent-ly


Known bugs:

I don't know if lilypond allows this, but indent-ly does not like 
something like:

\relative c' { c d e f | %{ a strange comment block {{{ in << << the middle of 
a line %} g a b c |
}

So please don't use such constructs ;-)

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Martin Tarenskeen