Re: Automatic generation of scores skeletons

[Carl Peterson]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Johan Vromans <address@hidden> wrote:

Jacques Menu <address@hidden> writes:

> After struggling with irregular bars, I've been working on a Python3 tool that
> transforms a spec such as:

> [...]

> into a ready-to-compile Lilypond source file.

Very interesting. It reminds me of something I considered a while ago:
a kind of meta-staff where the structure of the score is described
(time/tempo, repeats, special \bar's, and so on). These would then apply
to all the staffs automatically.

The rationale is that while a LilyPond score consists of horizontal
staffs, it is in fact structured vertically and sometimes it has
advantages to treat it as such. For example, using pseudo-LP:

This is a variant on the technique I use in my own templating system for SATB hymns. I have one LP file where I define the actual music. In addition to each voice part, I also define a "meta-voice" that contains the information about key, time signature, bars, etc., that is applied as an additional voice on each staff.

Carl